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<p>Like the plethora of local government and other state websites here in the UK, there is little consistency and a great deal of independence among the rash of American state and local government websites.</p>
<p>Frequently, users find it difficult to find information because of distinct or poor information architectures.</p>
<p>The partnership is a recognition of the important role search engines play as remote navigational tools.</p>
<p>The initiative will reportedly involve the state sites deploying <a href="http://www.google.com/coop/cse/overview">Google's Custom Search Engine</a> on their sites, creating sitemaps and working with the Mountain View, California company to better publicise information in google.com queries.<br /></p>
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<strong>Google is working with US state governments to make online information more easily accessible to citizens.</strong>
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<p>The search site partnered with Arizona, Utah, California and Virginia so that <em>"information that previously did not appear in a casual Google search will now appear when searching for results on relevant topics ranging from education to health to property records or regulations"</em>, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN2946293620070430?feedType=RSS&pageNumber=2">Reuters reported</a> and <a href="http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070429005059&newsLang=en">Google announced</a>.</p>
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