U.S. Government Interagency Science Portal Goes Live!
Science.gov (www.science.gov), the public’s “go to” Web portal for the vast stores of Federal science information, has made searching for information easier for the user. At a roll-out on May 11, Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham launched the new search version of Science.gov which includes ranking the relevance of results to the users’
question.
While retaining the content and advances originally unveiled in December 2002, Science.gov 2.0 will search its 47 million pages of government R&D results and present the results to patrons in relevancy-ranked order. This new technology sorts through the government’s reservoirs of research and rapidly returns information in an order more likely to meet patrons’ needs.
The Web portal is made possible through a collaboration of 12 major science agencies forming a coalition called the Science.gov Alliance.
The Department of Energy, which hosts the site through its Office of Scientific and Technical Information, funded the R&D of a new relevancy-ranking technology by a company called Deep Web Technologies. The technology was applied to meta-searches in the deep Web where traditional search engines cannot go.
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