Google press release, "Google and Four US States Improve Public Access to Government Websites," April 30, 2007
- Lots of govt info on databases not accessible to search engine crawlers, thus harder to find
- state tech managers working to increase amount of govt info available to Google searches
- Sitemap Protocol is key
- produces list of all pages on website
- automatically sends list to search engines
- see case study on Arizona and press info
- Arizona: less than 50 tech staff hours >> implementation on eight major databases, "made hundreds of thousands of public records and other pages 'crawlable'"
- Started with CA, AZ, UT, and VA
- added MI, FL
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