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The for-fee version of GGReport includes two features not available elsewhere. The first is a selection of technical tips for government users of Google services. The second is a summary of the most important news about Google.

Google Earth—Anywhere You Want to Be
Google Earth is arguably the mapping system that changed how government agencies plot data. "In the last year, I think, we've become used to seeing the news sort of in context," states Google Earth CTO Michael Jones. "Instead of building a page browser, I wanted to build an earth browser. We wanted to build this world that was an autobiographical planet that you could explore, and that would tell you about itself."
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The Search Is on in Google Colorado
In the summer of 2006 the Colorado state government's Internet portal made the switch from Verity to the Google Search Appliance or GSA.
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Three Ways to Boost Your Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo Search Ratings
SEO or search engine optimization refers to tactics that allegedly allow a Web site to appear on the first page of a results list. Government agencies that are buried deep in a results list are, for many budget officers, invisible. Agencies must optimize their Web pages in order to "come up on the radar" when funding decisions are made. LANL (Los Alamos National Laboratory) discovered that other national labs had higher rankings. Invisibility affects funding.
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Google Learns the Value of Being Persistent
The news additional to the Google partners' roster is Persistent Systems. It was Persistent's goal to integrate the Google Search Appliance into the Lotus Notes / Domino program. The General Services Administration uses Lotus Notes as its core email and collaboration environment. Making the Notes' repositories searchable is an important priority for many government IT professionals.
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Google U.S. Government Customer Update
Google has captured several hundred government customers, based on analyses conducted by GGReport. Some of Google's high-profile customers include the U.S. Army, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, NASA, the Department of Energy, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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The Google OneBox API Gets a Beefier Network Search Capability
Imagine a world that combines Google's search technology with the wealth of data housed in business applications. OneBox performs a data integration function that eliminates many of the problems a government professional faces when looking for a specific document on the multiplicity of systems in a typical state or federal agency.
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Google News Enhanced
In September 2006, Google introduced its news archive search. In this market, news search has long be a stable of Thomson's online services and ReedElsevier's LexisNexis service. Now, Google makes an entrance with for-fee and free news. Government professionals have an alternative when timely information is needed.

The next issue takes a close look at Google's radical database technology. Despite the peculiar name BigTable, Google is poised to go after the multi-billion dollar enterprise database market. The U.S. government spends big money for IBM DB2, Oracle 10g, and Microsoft SQLServer. Will the government make the leap to Google? Will Google's fresh approach get traction or become an eternal beta product? Read GGReport Number 2 for more insight.
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