Google Powers First Local Government Custom Search Engine

Updated on Wednesday, October 25th, 2006 at 10:35 am

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Marlborough, Massachusetts - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - October 25, 2006 - Google Custom Search Engine (CSE), has been released by CityTownInfo.com, to provide enhanced search for state and local government site information. In addition, CityTownInfo.com is making its CSE available to third party publishers for publication on their web sites, at no cost or obligation.

Google’s Custom Search Engines take advantage of expert editorial guidance to produce superior search results. CityTownInfo’s CSE incorporates the knowledge of human editors related to thousands of geographic reference web sites. This specialized expertise, combined with Google’s algorithms and vast database of web sites, yields improved search results related to U.S. geographies, including demographics, maps, housing, employment, news, neighborhoods, landmarks, climate, and almanac and other data.

Eric Enge, VP of Marketing for Moving Traffic, the publisher of CityTownInfo.com commented, ”The Google Custom Search Engine announcement is a dramatic step in the direction of distributed search. The web has seen the rise of community-based wisdom, with sites such as dmoz.org, digg.com, reddit.com, wikipedia.org, and many others. But CSEs allow people to apply their expertise in a variety of specialized areas to improve mainstream search results. This allows a far greater number of web site operators to offer their expertise, and broadens the availability of community and expert knowledge dramatically. As a result, for many searches, the best search quality may be found on sites other than Google’s (using the Google CSE).”

Citytowninfo.com will be soliciting and incorporating suggestions on web resources to include in its CSE. Interested parties may suggest their own sites for inclusion, for example. Suggestions can be sent to coop@citytowninfo.com.

Moving Traffic is the publisher of CityTownInfo, a site designed to make it easy to learn about any city or town in the U.S. Travelers, home buyers, real estate agents, researchers, journalists, bloggers and others visit the site to get background information and find resources on a particular community.

Google’s innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google’s targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia.

To learn more about CityTownInfo, please visit: www.citytowninfo.com.

For more information about Google, please visit: www.google.com.

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