{"id":756,"date":"2007-01-16T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2007\/01\/16\/firstgov-gov-is-now-usa-gov\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:30:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:30:30","slug":"firstgov-gov-is-now-usa-gov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2007\/01\/16\/firstgov-gov-is-now-usa-gov\/","title":{"rendered":"FirstGov.gov is now USA.gov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The public spoke, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsa.gov\/Portal\/gsa\/ep\/home.do?tabId=0\">General Services Administration (GSA)<\/a>  listened.<\/p>\n<p>GSA is responsible for operating and maintaining the U.S. government&#8217;s official web portal, formerly know as FirstGov.gov. This month, the site changed its name to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usa.gov\/\">USA.gov<\/a>, which should be a lot easier for everyone to remember.<\/p>\n<p>Why the change? Here are a few things GSA learned from visitors to the site:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Last year, more than 600,000 people typed &#8220;usa.gov&#8221; into their web browser when searching for government information.<\/li>\n<li>In a 2006 telephone survey, 79 percent of respondents preferred the name USA.gov.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>USA.gov is intuitive\u2014it describes what our site is: the U.S. government online.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%\">For more information about the name change, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usa.gov\/About\/New-Name.shtml\">read the announcement and FAQ<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public spoke, and the General Services Administration (GSA) listened. GSA is responsible for operating and maintaining the U.S. government&#8217;s official web portal, formerly know as FirstGov.gov. This month, the site changed its name to USA.gov, which should be a <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2007\/01\/16\/firstgov-gov-is-now-usa-gov\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  FirstGov.gov is now USA.gov<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378,379],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}