Google help searchers find their way around American government web sites.

Google has launched a new search site for US Government information. The search engine limits search results to U.S. federal, state and local sites with domains such as .gov, .mil as well as some selected government sites with .com, .us, and .edu domains.

You can choose to search for content located on either U.S. federal, state and local government websites .

The home page adds some more features, however, including government related headlines from various newspapers and new sites.

There are at the moment several headline categories on the home page:

• American Forces Information Services
• White House News
• Top Government Stories from Google News
• Government Executive
• and headlines from the Washington Post

If you have a Google account, you may add additional headline sections of your own choice.

Public sites that find themselves excluded from the index, may add their content using Google Sitemaps.