And its a big pile of pants. (N.b. I note from your CV that you work on "Development of large e-government" sites, so if it's one of yours, please don't take it personally!).

The search is fairly useless, it misses large chunks of Government services such as health and the military, and for those that it does cover it doesn't either a) go into much detail beyond generic overviews or b) provide easy to find links to more specific websites. E.g. I wanted to find out what local policing initiatives were happening in my area, so I went to the crime and justice -> police section, but there was no local information or links to my local police force. At the end of the day Google and the existing array of .uk sites I cited previously did the job marvellously.

Its also something of a red herring, as even if the enormous task of delivering what it promises is somehow achieved, the vast array of government agencies (all the way down to local government) are so disparate (particularly in relation to online presence and marketing) that they will not support it and will continue to promote their own websites directly, leaving it to fade into obscurity. Even Google and other automatic algorithms won't like it, because the more pertinent, local, definitive information won't be there.

The web works best as a decentralised, federated information store. Monolithic sites like these miss the point, miss the opportunity the web brings, and almost invariably fail to live up to the goals they set themselves. The fact they are usually over budget and over time is another side of the same coin...