Digital.gov

Reduce, remove, remediate: PDFs and government websites

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500

In a recent governmentwide community discussion, we shared tips to remediate the use of PDFs on government websites, focusing on balancing needs, choosing formats, starting fixes, and ensuring documents are accessible for everyone.

Search.gov 2021 Year In Review

Tue, 22 Feb 2022 13:34:00 -0500

Search.gov 2021 Year In Review

The Federal Web in the Year of COVID-19

Fri, 16 Apr 2021 13:55:00 -0500

The past year was like no other. We take a look at how it affected federal website traffic and search data.

Search.gov

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

A free hosted search platform for federal websites.

Search.gov: 2019 in Review

Mon, 27 Jan 2020 13:00:00 -0500

In 2019, Search.gov served 295,916,305 queries across more than 2,000 government websites. Find out more in their annual report, including the most common topics that people searched for.

Indexing with Search.gov

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 14:00:00 -0500

Come take a walk through the Search.gov indexing process from start to finish.

How Search Engines Index Your Websites

Tue, 29 May 2018 14:00:00 -0500

Join Search.gov as they walk you through the fundamentals of how search engines monitor your content and pull relevant data from your pages.

An Introduction to Search.gov

Thu, 03 May 2018 14:00:00 -0500

Learn about the essential features of Search.gov and tour its Admin Center.

Dear Search: Reading Between the Lines of Search Data

Fri, 21 Oct 2016 11:00:34 -0400

Welcome to the first Dear Search article, an occasional series where the DigitalGov Search team addresses common search questions. Dear Search, Right now, I am building up user research services that can be offered to product owners on a regular or as-needed basis. So, being able to look at search trends and offer advice to

Let’s Encrypt Those CNAMES, Shall We?

Wed, 07 Sep 2016 11:00:56 -0400

This is post 4 in the 5-part series, The Right Tools for the Job: Re-Hosting DigitalGov Search to a Dynamic Infrastructure Environment. This post references the previous posts frequently, so please read those before reading this one if you haven’t done so already. In addition to the DNS challenges created by offering “masked” domains such

Quality, Speed, and Lower Costs: Yes, You Can Have It All

Fri, 02 Sep 2016 10:00:42 -0400

This is post 2 in the 5-part series The Right Tools for the Job: Re-Hosting DigitalGov Search to a Dynamic Infrastructure Environment. The last major infrastructure upgrade that DigitalGov Search had was in 2010. Not only has technology evolved significantly since then, but so have business models for right-sizing costs. Moving to Amazon Web Services (AWS)

The Right Tools for the Job: Re-Hosting DigitalGov Search to a Dynamic Infrastructure Environment

Thu, 18 Aug 2016 10:00:29 -0400

This is the first post of a 5-part series. DigitalGov Search is a commercial-grade search engine provided as a shared-service by the United States General Services Administration. We power about 2,300 search configurations for hundreds of federal, state, and local government agencies. Using our platform, agencies can easily configure a search experience for the public that

HTTPS and Other Ranking Factors: What Impacts the SEO of Government Websites?

Wed, 02 Sep 2015 10:00:43 -0400

Following the recent OMB memo that all publicly available federal websites and Web services must implement HTTPS by December 31, 2016, Web content managers across government are considering the SEO (search engine optimization) implications of the transition, among other details.

Search, Buscar, Поиск, جستجو, Cari: Creating a Good, Multilingual Search Experience

Mon, 31 Aug 2015 11:10:46 -0400

In 2015, DigitalGov Search dramatically expanded support for languages on our search results page, expanding from just English and Spanish to support 68 different languages.

Our Customer is Your Customer: Working Together to Improve Search on .Gov Websites

Thu, 14 May 2015 11:10:59 -0400

We know search engines aren’t Magic 8 Balls, but that’s still how we expect them to behave. We want them to answer our complex and burning questions based on just a few words. And we’ve felt that frustration when the top search results don’t serve our needs, and the results page itself makes us work.

Mobilegeddon: Government Edition

Wed, 15 Apr 2015 14:15:42 -0400

Much is being said and written about the coming Mobilegeddon/Mopocalypse on April 21st—the day Google’s ranking algorithm will begin boosting results for mobile-friendly sites and penalizing mobile-unfriendly sites. While some agency websites are mobile-friendly, a great many are not. We will do well to pay attention—almost 25% of traffic on government websites is coming from