Search Engines: Government Search Engines

Getting The US Election Results From Google, Bing & Yahoo

Who’s winning in today’s US presidential election between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney? Who’s ahead for the many House of...

Danny Sullivan | Nov 6, 2012 at 6:59 pm ET

Election 2012: Searching And Researching The Presidential Debates

The final debate between U.S. presidential candidates Obama and Rommney airs tonight. Until the election next month, a lot of attention will...

Gary Price | Oct 22, 2012 at 4:33 pm ET

Politwoops: A Search Engine For Deleted Tweets From Policitians

At the beginning of the year I wrote about PolitickerUSA, a free tool that allows users to quickly and easily read tweets from members of...

Gary Price | Jul 21, 2012 at 1:08 pm ET

The 1940 U.S. Census: Soon, A Searcher’s Treasure Trove

Big news for genealogists, historians and even for people just curious about their own families: the 1940 U.S. Census is now available on the...

Gary Price | Apr 12, 2012 at 4:02 pm ET

Four Seriously Cool Information Resources

As a librarian, researcher and frequent blogger, I’m constantly coming across incredibly useful online information resources that are most...

Gary Price | Mar 9, 2012 at 1:13 pm ET

A Roundup Of New U.S. Government Search Tools

The U.S. government generates a wealth of useful and interesting information. Despite excellent government-oriented search engines like USA.gov...

Gary Price | Jan 30, 2012 at 12:54 pm ET

Google Launches US Election Hub Website

You have one less excuse for being an uninformed voter this election year in the U.S. Google has launched a new U.S. politics/election hub at...

Matt McGee | Jan 2, 2012 at 2:10 pm ET

So Long and Farewell: Google’s Oldest Vertical Search Engine, Uncle Sam & Others Gone

Yesterday, Search Engine Roundtable and InfoDocket both pointed out that Google’s U.S. government specialty search tools, Google-Uncle Sam...

Gary Price | Jun 7, 2011 at 11:04 pm ET

Searching The Wikileaks Cablegate Archives With Cablesearch

Want to explore the “Cablegate” material that Wikileaks released last week for yourself, but have no idea where to start?...

Danny Sullivan | Dec 4, 2010 at 2:57 am ET

8 Crazy-Cool Search Engines You Should Know

Move over Google, Yahoo, and Bing; blended results or not, personalized search, Twitter results and OneBoxes … you guys are just too...

Matt McGee | Apr 16, 2010 at 1:30 pm ET

Legistalker: What Happens In DC Doesn’t Have To Stay In DC

As a nation, the US seems to be more interested in politics than we’ve been in a long time. Voter turnout in last year’s...

Matt McGee | Jul 1, 2009 at 12:19 pm ET

Google Election Maps Gallery Offers Data For Journalists, Political Junkies

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Greg Sterling | Jun 19, 2008 at 10:03 am ET

Super Tuesday, Internet Style: How We’re Using The Web In The 2008 Elections

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Vanessa Fox | Feb 5, 2008 at 7:07 pm ET

Visualize Earthquake Data In Google Earth

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Greg Sterling | Jan 30, 2008 at 10:24 am ET

YouTube Readies For “Super Tuesday” With Mapping Site

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Greg Sterling | Jan 24, 2008 at 9:39 am ET

Truveo Creates New Election Videos Site

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Greg Sterling | Jan 17, 2008 at 10:05 am ET

The Library of Congress Teams Up With Flickr

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Barry Schwartz | Jan 17, 2008 at 8:41 am ET

Google Maps Being Used To Engage Political Volunteers, Activists

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Greg Sterling | Jan 15, 2008 at 8:33 am ET

Pew/Internet Study Finds Most Americans Get Their Answers From The Internet

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Vanessa Fox | Dec 30, 2007 at 4:11 pm ET

Google Partners With Florida To Make Govt. Data More Accessible

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Greg Sterling | Dec 4, 2007 at 9:02 am ET