Information Society Watch

December 11, 2007, Center for Democracy and Technology

This report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at the United States E-Government act of 2002 and its effectiveness in making government available to citizens. It aims to highlight the lack of accessible government information to encourage federal agencies to consider their information policies. The report finds that popular search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Live miss important information because of how government agencies have published that information. It discusses why these commercial search engines are unable to find this information and also provides recommendations to make this information more searchable, thus increasing its accessibility.

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