Google Beseeches Government For Public Records
Today, a Google executive is anticipated to ask the federal government to adopt a standard that will make hard-to-find or unavailable public records accessible through search engines. Google’s manager of public sector content partnerships, John Needham said in a prepared testimony to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that agencies create sites that are structured in a way that makes it difficult for search engines to provide the information according to CNN Money.
He said of this data “As a result, information that is intended for public use is rendered effectively invisible to citizen users.” The report continued that Leslie Phillips, spokeswoman for Sen. Joe Lieberman, who chairs the committee, said that Needham is one of four witnesses who will testify how agencies can improve accessibility to online government information by using new technologies.
Needham is going to offer the suggestion of adopting a technical standard that helps a site owner list, or map all the agency’s database records and pages. The map can then be read and indexed by search engines. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia is also expected to testify.
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