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Googling Government Web sites

I will let you decide whether Google is being altruistic or is it just another means to an end of creating more revenue through advertisement dollars.

Google is pushing for government web sites to be accessible to search engines crawlers, so that when someone types in a query in the Google search bar, the information available in government sites will show up readily instead of having to go to the actual government site to access the required information.  Read here.

Google claims that it doesn’t want to disappoint its users and wants to provide service and be the best search engine out there, but other feel that the bottom line motivation is profit generation.

December 13, 2008 - Posted by Sujatha Ganesan | Uncategorized | | 1 Comment

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  1. Though there is a profit incentive, as it this avenue of knowledge would be highly beneficial to the public, the government should seriously check their resistance to this particular initiative.

    Comment by Christopher | October 4, 2009 | Reply


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