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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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?...
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...
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...