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Search.gov Roadmap Fiscal Year 2024 Quarter 1

Overview

At Search.gov we aim to provide an excellent public search experience, a self-service search administration experience, and a rock-solid secure and compliant infrastructure to support it all, while keeping costs down across the government.

We know it’s helpful for our partners at federal agencies to know what’s coming up next, to support planning for your own web platforms.

This roadmap shows what we are working on now, and what we plan to be working after that. We’ll update this roadmap quarterly.

FY 2024 Q1: October–December 2023

Now

  • Search Engine Results Page (SERP) Redesign – Data Integration & Release
    • We will release the new results page design.
    • We will finalize updates to the Admin Center to allow agencies to customize the look and feel of the new results page design.
  • Faceted Search
    • We will build the frontend components required to support this functionality.
    • We will update our Admin Center to allow agencies to control their faceted search experiences.
  • Alphanumeric String Search Investiagtions
    • We will finalize and release our natural language processing and AI to support alphanumeric string matching.
  • Crawling Investigations
    • We will continue exploring options to support crawling for our indexed domains.
  • Search Recall Improvements
    • We will improve our multilingual search processing.
  • System Security
    • We will release improvements related to ATO security controls.
  • Infrastructure Improvements
    • We will prepare to move to a new orchestration tool.

Next

  • Infrastructure Improvements
    • We will complete the move to a new orchestration tool.
  • Version Upgrades
    • We will continue work on the software components to keep them up-to-date.
  • Natural Language Support
    • We will investigate options for complex synonym handling.
    • We will investigate options for more flexible spelling corrections.
  • User Role Enhancements
    • We will add more user roles for the Admin Center.
    • We will create permission sets for the new roles.

Later

  • Continued Indexing Improvements
  • Relevance Ranking Improvements
    • Admin center controls
    • Add machine learning to the ranking algorithm

If you have questions or comments, please feel free to reach out to our team.

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