How It Works

USASearch is a hosted site search service provided by the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, U.S. General Services Administration. You can use USASearch to power the search box on your federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial government website—at no cost.

• We provide a search box that searches across all of your public-facing digital content. We support an unlimited number of web pages across multiple domains and we integrate your RSS feeds, tweets, YouTube videos, and Flickr photos.
• We provide a self-service Admin Center so you can review your search analytics and manage the search experience for your website, including telling us what content you want indexed, setting up the display of your results page, and curating recommendations.
• We maintain a 99.95%-plus uptime and deliver nearly all search results in less than 750 milliseconds. Our system is certified and accredited.

How To Set It Up

Browse through our How To Manual and Go-Live Punch List for tips on how to configure the search experience for your website.

Basic Settings

• Site information
• Get code
• Preview

Content Sources

• Domains
• URLs & sitemaps
• RSS
• Collections
• Social media

User Interface

• Look and feel
• Header and footer
• Results modules
• Sidebar

Editorial Features

• Best bets
• Type-ahead search

Site Analytics

• Trending queries
• Query logs
• Click stats
• Monthly reports
• Page views
• Low CTR queries

Account Settings

• Add new site
• Search API
• 3rd party tracking
• Raw logs access

Also be sure to read our release notes to keep up-to-date with our new features.

Do you have other questions or comments about how our service works? E-mail us at USASearch@gsa.gov.