Geeking out on google: cabq.gov

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Geeking out on google: cabq.gov

Posted by Kitson Harvey on May 12, 2008 at 6:39pm in General Discussion

Have you seen what happens when you google "city website", with or without the quotes?

Los Angeles comes up first.....

On a related note, if you click through to everyone else's site, they all look like crap. Nice work, Ms. Foster.

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Permalink Reply by Kitson Harvey on May 12, 2008 at 6:42pm: Actually, NOLA's is sort of okay, but ABQ's still dominates.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Khan on May 12, 2008 at 6:49pm: The other ABQ website definitely worth a nod is Maresa Thompson's ACVB site:

http://itsatrip.org/

That's some beautiful work, too!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Kitson Harvey on May 12, 2008 at 6:54pm: It takes quite a bit of work to:

a) build a website that's as functional as our city's is (take a gander at the horrorshows on parade from Los Angeles, San Diego, etc).

b) build a website that ranks as well as ours does on google (hi -- those other cities are way bigger than we are -- their traffic must be monstrous).

CF said this somewhere else on this site -- good web (like, IMO, the Fix) doesn't happen by accident -- it's the result of a ton of work, research, attention to the data, etc. Nice job, CABQ web team!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Erika Ruth on May 12, 2008 at 8:33pm: I moved to this city just a few weeks ago... So far, it has been very useful when searching for homes, finding schools, and neighborhood associations. I even paid my water bill today through the site! It really is nice. (I have it book marked).

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