Search the United States of America USASearch
USA.gov is administered by the Office of Citizen Services and Communications. It got its start when Internet entrepreneur Eric Brewer offered to donate a powerful search engine to government. That gift helped accelerate the government’s earlier work to create a government-wide portal.
In June 2000, the President announced the gift from the Federal Search Foundation, a nonprofit organization established by Brewer, and instructed that an official U.S. web portal be launched within 90 days. USA.gov went online on September 22, 2000 under the name FirstGov.gov. The GSA and 22 federal agencies funded the initiative in 2001 and 2002. Since 2002, USA.gov has received an annual appropriation from the U.S. Congress. In January 2007, FirstGov.gov officially changed its name.
