"Maine is helping to lead the way with its award-winning e-government portal and services," said Dick Thompson, Maine's chief information officer. "The Google upgrade is another example of the state's commitment to provide the public with superior electronic service."
Visitors to the official state portal can now use the same technology as the Web's leading search engine to search over 90,000 pages of content.
"With the tremendous amount of information available on Maine.gov, a new search engine was necessary to meet the needs of the citizens and businesses who interact with state government via the Web," said Carrie Gott, general manager of Maine.gov. "This is the perfect opportunity to offer a superior search solution for Maine's best-in-class portal."
Google factors in more than 100 variables for each search query, producing accurate results in less than one second. New features of the search engine include automatic spell check, cached pages, sorting options and advanced boolean searches.
