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Gov 2.0 Workaround of the Week: AdvantagePlus

Jon Bearscove, a GSA Federal Acquisition Service contracting specialiston the Environmental and Logworld Schedule programs, has designed this Google-based search engine to do a better job at finding GSA-scheduled labor categories and services that GSA Advantage’s own search tool.

Using Google’s custom search engine, it can pick through GSA Advantage’s content–text, PDFs, etc,–without the navigational headaches of the Advantage interface. “Wasn’t producing the results I needed to help do my job, so I build a better search engine on my free time at home over a beer,” he told me over Twitter DM.

It also loads a lot faster.

(1:00 pm: updated after tweeting with Jon).

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YouTube soon to be GSA legal.

Nextgov reports that the GSA and Google/YouTube are close to a deal that will make it possible for Federal agencies to post videos to the YouTube service.

The deal was hinted at at last month’s Bethesda AFCEA breakfast, when Peter Alterman , Deputy Associate Administrator for Technology Strategy at GSA’s Office of Government-wide Policy, told the assembled AFCEAns and feds that Google had agreed to meet government requirements for use.

Coming soon: Everything Pueblo, Colorado ever wanted to tell you in an Internet video, but you were afraid to ask. Also, more videos like this one, the Rat hopes.

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