Google launched a service on Thursday for consolidated searches of U.S. Government websites. The site, which can be accessed at http://usgov.google.com/, searches “a huge index of U.S. Federal, state and local government websites,” according to a post on Google’s blog. The entry advertises the site as a way to quickly find government-related forms, phone numbers and mailing addresses.

Searches on the site seem to return more results and execute much more quickly than the U.S. Government’s own consolidated search site and portal, FirstGov.gov, which is powered by MSN Search.

As for the accuracy of the Google results, “corruption” returns 988,000 results, but “civil liberties” returns only 404,000.

Seems to be working flawlessly.