Google News Adds US Elections Section

The Google News Blog announced they have set up a special section for 2008 US presidential elections. The elections area is featured on the home page, and there is now a link to “Elections” on the left hand side navigation. In addition to the Elections section on Google News, a “Follow the Candidates” Google Gadget […]

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The Google News Blog announced they have set up a special section for 2008 US presidential elections. The elections area is featured on the home page, and there is now a link to “Elections” on the left hand side navigation.

In addition to the Elections section on Google News, a “Follow the Candidates” Google Gadget is available that you can place on your site to pull content from Google News, Video, Maps, and Blogs.


Here is a screen capture:

Google News Elections

Yahoo News also has an Elections section for news on your favorite candidates. Incorporated in Yahoo News are news articles, videos, Yahoo Answers, Flickr photos, and much more.


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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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