California to open databases for search engines

“California, Arizona, Utah and Virginia agreed to incorporate lines of computer code into their Web sites to increase the information that can be found through Google searches. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said in a statement Monday that “California state government provides tremendous resources online for the public to learn about our great state. Our partnership with Google will empower Californians to know more about our government and provide better access to services and helpful information. The move will help search engines like Mountain View-based Google Inc. or Sunnyvale-based Yahoo Inc. tap into information that was only in state databases before.”