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Search.gov Roadmap Fiscal Year 2024 Quarter 3

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 Q3: April–June 2024

Now

  • Search engine results page (SERP) redesign - release
    • We will complete fixes to beta release and migrate customer sites to production release.
    • We will complete high priority post-launch improvements.
    • We will begin deprecation of our old results page design.
  • Search filters (faceted search)
    • We will build the frontend components required for our hosted results page to support search filters.
    • We will expose backend data for search filters from the search index to the hosted results page.
    • We will update our Admin Center to allow agencies to control their faceted search experiences.
  • Spider implementation (crawling)
    • We will deploy a beta version of our web spider to production.
  • Search Recall Improvements
    • We will improve our multilingual search processing.
  • Version Upgrades
    • We will upgrade Ruby.
    • We will begin our Elasticsearch upgrade.
  • Infrastructure Improvements
    • We will containerize our applications.
    • We will complete our move to a new orchestration tool.

Next

  • Spider implementation (crawling)
    • We will expand our beta spider to MVP.
  • 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
  • Natural language support
    • We will investigate options for complex synonym handling.
    • We will investigate options for more flexible spelling corrections.

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

Previous Roadmaps