Search engines

Description:
Web applications to support users find and retrieve relevant information (web pages) typically using keyword searching

eParticipation areas:

• Information Provision

Stage policy cycle: As a general purpose information finding tool they could be used at all stages in the policy cycle.


Specials:
It is possible to include a search engine in your own website, what many government websites actually do.


Channel:
Search engines are usable over browsers on PCs and mobile Phones or PDAs.

Technology:

• Web application

Evaluation:
Accepted measures of information retrieval performance, such as ‘recall’ , ‘precision’ and ‘mean reciprocal rank’ can be used

Additions:
http://www.govspot.com/shortcuts/searchengines.htm http://www.firstgov.gov/