Singapore Government Online Search Engine

The Singapore Government Online Search engine serves to enhance the accuracy of search results obtained for searches on government-wide information and services on the Internet.  Searches are done through a metadata standard based search engine and user interface.

The Singapore Government Online Search engine comprises:

1. A Government-wide taxonomy which categorises web content by domains (or subject areas).  Information on Government-owned Internet websites will be categorised into the following ten domains:
   
   

   Business	Family & Community Development	Culture, Recreation & Sports	Housing	Transport & Travel
   Education, Learning & Employment	Defence & Security	Health & Environment	Science & Technology	Public Administration

   
   
   
2. A common metadata standard used to create structured information to describe the context of the information or service. This could be in terms of the title, subject keywords, creator, and last update date of the information or service.

Below is an illustration of the search process with the implementation of the Singapore Government Online Search engine.

With Singapore Government Online Search engine: Complete Search Results & Consistent Search Experience

The Singapore Government Online Search engine was launched on the Singapore Government Online Portal (www.gov.sg) in March 2006. The search engine will provide metadata-enabled searches for web-contents found in all public sector websites