BEA enhances survey search features

Survey of Current Business, April, 2007

In keeping with BEA's goal of providing a high-quality Web-based publication, the Bureau has launched a new archival search feature for the SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS.

The new feature allows people to search the publication's archive back to 1994 using keywords. Previously, people could only use keywords to search the entire BEA Web site. The new keyword search function complements existing search features, which allow searches via subject guides and also by date of publication.

The new keyword search feature relies on technology from Google and Vivisimo and goes beyond traditional Web site search techniques.

The search feature creates clusters of relevant items. People can then browse the results or even search within the clustered items.

The search function is available on the SURVEY home page at <www.bea.gov/scb/index.htm>.