http://www.google.com/ig/usgov
Check it out. :) |
Interesting! I've never seen this before.
Now google decided to team up with the Government. |
Opps I just credited David Hetfield for this catch, but it appears you beat him, sorry. Nice find Dan :)
Wonder how many of these customised pages they are planning on doing. |
Check out what happens when you click add content. Seems to be a different layout then regular www.google.com/ig because you can currently only add feeds(no gadgets). Very customized just for the government sites. |
It seems as though the really customized it just to fit the Government. Because they are not supporting gadgets for it they have a different add content interface tehn what I've seen before with the other www.google.com/ig. Because its just adding feeds only they have it spawn off to teh side instead of redirecting to a different page. |
hmm, they're just repushing their "uncle sam" search it seems: http://www.google.com/unclesam it's part of a VERY old set of specialized searches: http://www.google.com/options/specialsearches.html i've never seen anybody use them. interesting that they're pushing one, they must've updated it or something. |
Uhh the slide effect for "Add content >>" is pretty nice |
http://www.google.com/help/about_usgovernmentsearch.html
How do I search across U.S. government sites?
To search across content from U.S. government sources on Google U.S. Goverment Search, all you have to do is enter a query into the search box and click the "Search Government Sites" button. This launches a search across U.S. federal, state and local government sites with domains such as .gov, .mil, and other select ones. You get the same relevance and results format as you do when conducting a search on Google.com. You can also use the advanced search option to focus on content from specific government sources.
Top secret data for all of us ;) |
Yes, aside from the personalization, some documentation (something that Uncle Sam never offered, and perhaps other "Stuff" it's Uncle Sam. Even the url from the new site shows Uncle Sam.
See: http://www.resourceshelf.com/2006/06/15/googles-new-usgovgoogle-vs-google-uncle-sam/
If nothing else it's another Google vs. MS thing since FirstGovSearch is powered, in part, by MSN. However, several specialty databases, features, and dynamic clustering from Vivisimo make it a quality and useful site. A spanish version of FirstGovSearch is also available.
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You know, I had thought that I recognized the red white and blue Google logo. I did some digging hoping that I could find those other specialsearches in the ig(personlized) format and found out that www.google.com/ig/ is also used in some other places were google personalizes their search box with other companies stuff around it. Such as Dell(www.google.com/ig/dell), Gateway(www.google.com/ig/gateway) and Current Communications(www.google.com/ig/current). While none of those are exactly new, I didn't realize till just now that they were apart of the ig(Personalized Hompage) code. Also, I didn't realize that there was a api for http://www.google.com/ig. If you check out http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=94043 it returns to you in xml format the weather conditions for Mountain View, CA. Which if you wanted to code something up you could have your website grab that url with your zipcode instead and parse through the information to grab the current weather. Though this might have already been discovered, I never knew of it before so I might as well say I'm impressed. |
I usually don't bring up my full time employer here. I hope my friend Philipp knows it will not become a regular thing.
But speaking of weather, http://blog.ask.com/2006/06/askcom_search_t.html In many cases all of this info is global in scope. http://www.ask.com/web?o=312&qsrc=19&q=climate+stuttgart
You can also add local weather (international) and other feeds to Bloglines. very quickly.
Communities | Email Groups | News | Search | Jobs Package Tracking | Weather | Astrology | Lottery
oh, and speaking of global, Ask has some nice imagery of many cities in Europe. http://blog.ask.com/2006/05/askcom_maps_aer.html
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Funny they have gone back to the sliding thing after dumping it from the main .com/ig. |
Gary your pointers from an inside expert are actually a nice addition to the forum, keep showing up :) |