The US government launched a single front door to every federal

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The US government launched a single front door to every federal website once before. September 22, 2000. Bill Clinton announced it by webcast, gave the team 90 days, and a Berkeley professor named Eric Brewer donated the search engine for free. That site is still online. It got renamed http://usa.gov in 2007. In one 2024 survey, 13% of users said they'd recommend it. FirstGov indexed 27 million pages and let you search by topic instead of by agency. The press release reads almost word for…

tylertaewook@tylertaewook1d ago

Today we’re launching https://t.co/3PmkMcWHNN, a single front door to the federal government. Instead of opening a bunch of tabs across different agency sites and trying to figure out which information actually matters to you, you can ask America a question and get the relevant answer from across 29,000+ official government websites, with the source and what to do next.