1. State of Search Peter Buch – CSC EPA Web Workgroup Training Conference February 14, 2008 Potomac Yard Facility (Crystal City), Arlington, VA

2.  Add a spell checker  Add auto-suggest (auto-complete)  Continue to assign documents to folders

3.  Deployed in December  Jazzy – open source Java spellchecker  Dictionary customized for EPA (ETSS, OCEPA, GIS, Web Taxonomy)  Continue to mine misspellings for new words  Ann-Marie Bramer decides what goes in

4.  We have > more than 200,000 subject assignments, and 999 type assignments  Do you see folders – do you use them?  See how your documents are assigned at SearchCentral->Utilities->Folders by TSSMS  Feedback helps a lot… if we have misclassified your docs, please let us know.

5.  New release of Northern Light  New UI with new features  Autosuggest

6.  Multiple collections – › Different parts of EPA website on different indexing schedules › Break out different collection (e.g. Fed Register) for searching  Better ranking through expressions

7.  Folders, lot of new options in left sidebar (you just lost some real estate)  Searches only web pages (EPA), still searches all documents (This Area)  Mini-advanced search in sidebar  Google, USA.gov search in sidebar.

9.  Made feature implement-able without changes to content pages  Populated from same sources as dictionary, plus popular queries -  Adds 140K to page weight for 8K suggestions – but it’s cached …?  Ajax (client-server) approach …?

10.  WebCMS interface to search  Preparing to de-comission WEBI  Weighting of non-WEBI metadata  Site maps  Stop indexing PowerPoint  Redesign of EBT (Explore by Topics) interface with search

11.  Ranking › Problems with ranking of 3+ word queries › Problems ranking at all  Indexing › Missing pages › Slow updates

12.  Visit Search Central http://nlquery.epa.gov http://nlquery.epa.gov  Email me buch.peter@epa.gov