Easily search Scottish government websites
25 February 2009 at 21:50
Categories: Admin, Public sector, Scottish Parliament, Tools, government
Tags: Google, Google CSE, local government, Scotland Office, Scottish Government, search
I have built a custom search engine which will allow you to search Scottish government websites.
I built it using Google Custom Search Engine, which is a pretty nifty tool that lets you create a search engine that produces results from a selected set of websites. Dave Briggs suggested this following the success of LGSearch, which searches government websites in the UK.
At the moment Scotweb2 Search includes the websites of the Scottish Government, the Scottish Parliament, the Scotland Office and the 32 local councils in Scotland. In time, I plan to extend it so that it includes other Scottish public sector organisations. If you have any suggestions for the sort of websites that should be included, please feel free to leave a comment on this post or send us an email.
Dave Briggs
25 February 2009 at 22:04
Great work, Duncan! Simple but useful tools like this are great adverts for online innovation in the public sector. Hopefully folk will take note!
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