New Search for FirstGov

I've been teaching an online reference sources course for a year, and every time I'm showing a government site I say "oh yes, and the site's search engine stinks, so you might want to rely on browsing or use Google's "site:" search to get what you want."  Now I can't do that anymore--at least not with FirstGov.

As the official gateway to all government information, FirstGov is necessarily huge.  That makes organizing its vast array of information and resources really tough.  Enter Clusty, the clustering search engine.  Gary Price has an extensive review over on the Search Engine Watch Blog, so I won't duplicate his content here.  But the new search engine (which has its own spiffy Google-like homepage) has impressed the LiB with every search she's run so far.  Gary seems impressed too.   Check out this huge improvement to finding online government information.