[IRCA] FCC Search Page Goes Five Full Years Without An Update

["HASCALL, DAVID CIV DFAS" <DAVID.HASCALL@xxxxxxxx>]

I've been off of these lists for at least ten days, so this may have
already been discussed (I have lots of after hours reading to do, too).

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from the nice-work dept

Congrats to the FCC -- supposedly the most tech savvy of gov't agencies,
for going a full five years without updating its website search. Jerry
Brito, who has been watching the FCC's website for quite some time, and
noting how awful it is for a tech-related agency, points out that the
search page was last updated on December 11, 2003. Of course, that's not
the biggest problem. As Brito notes, the docketing system has tremendous
problems for an agency that needs to be more transparent: "there is no
full-text search, there are no data feeds, and their robots.txt file is
set to exclude search crawlers." Of course, when the agency is run by a
guy famous for secrecy and purposely hiding information to get his way,
perhaps it's no surprise that the search function has gone neglected.

http://techdirt.com/articles/20081211/1836593096.shtml

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Dave Hascall
Indianapolis

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