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Feb. 5, 2008 at 7:07pm by Vanessa Fox
Super Tuesday, Internet Style: How We're Using The Web In The 2008 Elections
Today is Super Tuesday, which means that voters in 24 states are carefully reviewing their candidate research and doing last minute thoughtful analysis in preparation for voting in the primaries. Well, maybe that's hopeful optimism, but in any case, the place these voters are turning to for information is...
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Jan. 30, 2008 at 10:24am by Greg Sterling
Visualize Earthquake Data In Google Earth
The US Geological Survey and Google are now making global earthquake data available in Google Earth as one of the layers under "Places of Interest."...
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Jan. 24, 2008 at 9:39am by Greg Sterling
YouTube Readies For "Super Tuesday" With Mapping Site
Google has been plotting election results from the US presidential primaries on maps. Those maps have included candidate and news videos. But now for "Super Tuesday" (February 5), Google is doing something somewhat more ambitious over at YouTube -- call it "Super Tubesday."...
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Jan. 17, 2008 at 10:05am by Greg Sterling
Truveo Creates New Election Videos Site
AOL's video search engine Truveo has created a new election videos site/area that collects candidate videos as well as commentary and news footage. Truveo claims the site is more comprehensive in terms of its sources and range of content than others. YouTube offers YouChoose, featuring candidate and user-generated videos, and...
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Jan. 17, 2008 at 8:41am by Barry Schwartz
The Library of Congress Teams Up With Flickr
The Library of Congress has teamed up with Flickr to create The Commons. The Library of Congress has added a sample of their over one million photos to Flickr, so that the Flickr community can help describe the photos through tagging. My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven...
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Jan. 15, 2008 at 8:33am by Greg Sterling
Google Maps Being Used To Engage Political Volunteers, Activists
Google has been showcasing its primaries mapplets, which offer results breakdowns by candidate and county, as well as other information (e.g., video). The Google LatLong blog now posts about how the candidates, campaign staffers, and other third parties are using the Google Maps and Maps API to showcase their messages...
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Dec. 30, 2007 at 4:11pm by Vanessa Fox
Pew/Internet Study Finds Most Americans Get Their Answers From The Internet
A PEW/Internet and American Life study out today finds that the place Americans turn to most for answers is the internet. The study, which surveyed 2,796 Americans, found that 76% have internet access and that 58% turn to the internet when they have questions about things like health, school, careers,...
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Dec. 4, 2007 at 9:02am by Greg Sterling
Google Partners With Florida To Make Govt. Data More Accessible
According to the South Florida Business Journal, Florida will be working with Google "to create new search engine features for those looking for government services online." Google will be indexing Florida state databases that are currently not discoverable via the Internet. Other states with similar programs include California, Arizona, Michigan,...
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Aug. 28, 2007 at 10:39am by Greg Sterling
'Google For Government' Coming Soon?
The Washington Post blog The Trail reports on challenges with implementing the already enacted Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act. The Act, passed last year, is intended to provide much more information to "ordinary Americans" regarding federal funding and federally funded projects via a search interface (not Google specifically). According...
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Aug. 9, 2007 at 8:55am by Greg Sterling
Hitwise Launches 2008 Election Metrics Tracking
Hitwise has launched a new data center that will track a range of metrics associated with the upcoming 2008 US election. It will reportedly update those metrics every Tuesday. The categories that will be tracked include the top websites from both parties, top political search terms and the fastest moving...
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Apr. 30, 2007 at 12:01am by Chris Sherman
Google Helps States Surface Government Information
Google has announced an initiative with state agencies in Arizona, California, Utah and Virginia to help expose government information to web search engines. Often, government information is stored in database systems that are difficult if not impossible for search engine crawlers to access and index. Google is working with technologists...
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Dec. 13, 2006 at 8:00pm by Danny Sullivan
Google Launches Google Patents, Full-Text US Patent Searching
Google has rolled out a new Google Patents search engine (Official Google Blog post here), allowing people to search across the full-text of US patents from 1790 through the middle of 2006. The company plans to update the service further with more 2006 filings and move to a weekly or...
