"When he was a senator, Barack Obama pushed through a law setting up a kind of "Google-for-government" website -- a one-stop-shop for tracking the $1 trillion handed out in federal contracts. Obama said the new site would help create a more transparent government. But now that he is president, Obama's Office of Management and Budget is responsible for keeping up the website -- and government auditors have found deficiencies."
Obama-backed website on government spending is found lacking - latimes.com
GAO says info is missing, unreliable, had widespread inconsistencies and 9 government agencies didn't report 15 government contracts.
Within the LA Times news article is a link to the website and the actual GAO report is here:
U.S. GAO - Electronic Government: Implementation of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006
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