Science.gov 2.0 Launches
Sara Michael,
FCW.Com,
May 17, 2004
This new version of the governmentwide Web portal for science and technology information is a significant improvement over the first. Still a federated search (which means searches may take, as the site says, 'up to 30 seconds'), the site has an improved search engine and now accesses 30 resource portals and 47 million pages in real time. It's not perfect, though: when I searched for 'Downes' (as I always do with services such as this) it decided that I was searching for 'down' and, of course, returned hundreds of useless results. I also think that the site is nearing the limit of what can be done with a federated search system, and don't expect that, with wide usage, it will be able to maintain its 30 second target.
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