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...
Google Election Maps Gallery Offers Data For Journalists, Political Junkies
Google has been visualizing US primary election data and, in anticipation of the US presidential election, has now created a Google Maps...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.,...
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...
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...