Google adds new state-by-state voting guide for “how to vote” searches
Google's latest search feature for voters includes a "2016 Election: How to Vote" box with information on voter IDs, deadlines and mail-in ballots.
Topic: United States presidential election
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 26, 2012
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Verisign Blames Google For Drop In Domain Registration & Renewal Rates The number of new domains being registered, and existing domains being renewed, is slowing down and Verisign — the company […]
Bing Launched Elections Portal: Filter News By Party, Social Integration, Maps & More
Bing announced on their search blog a new portal for tracking the US Presidential Elections at bing.com/elections. The portal has some nice search features, such as the ability to filter news sources by your political views. The downside of this news filter is that only specific news outlets are included, such as Politico, Real Clear […]
Googling Your Polling Place? It Pays To Double-Check
Today is elections day and Google has been touting their wonderful Google Election Center to aid voters in finding the polling place locations. The problem is, Google might send you to the wrong polling place, ultimately costing you time, instead of saving you time, in voting on today’s U.S. elections. Fast Company posted some examples […]
Where Do I Vote? Google Maps Shows The Way
I live in a purely Vote-by-Mail county; in fact, most of Washington state is Vote-by-Mail. But in this year of heightened political interest, you can imagine a lot of U.S. citizens wanting to go to the polls … but not knowing exactly where to go. UPDATE: For 2008 election results, please see Election Results From […]
Yahoo Introduces Elections Shortcuts
This morning Yahoo has introduced Elections Shortcuts (screenshots below). Working in concert with Yahoo Search Assist, when users search for candidate names or on related political queries these new Shortcuts provide quick access to presidential and local information about the forthcoming US election and related issues. The information is drawn from Yahoo news and the […]
Google Gets Political With Voting Tools
Google is mounting a multi-facted campaign to get people to register to vote and actually show up at the polls. There’s a voter information/registration map and a mobile version. There’s also a widget/gadget you can embed in your blog or site. It provides registration information, tied to home address.
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 Elections Gallery. There is a wide range of data here, from election results, to Twitter Tweets and search query volumes for each candidate. All the maps can also be embedded.
‘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 to the blog, however, a […]
Yahoo To Host Web Only US Presidential Debate
Yahoo! to stream web-only US Prez debate from The Register reports that Yahoo will be airing a web-only U.S. presidential debate soon. Yes, Google did something like this recently with YouTube and the Democratic debate. But Google’s version was not exclusive to online only, Yahoo’s is. Charlie Rose, of PBS, will be hosting the debate, […]
Google My Maps: Mashups For The Masses
Google has just launched “My Maps,” an impressively simple tool within Google Maps that allows users to create personal “mashups” and save or share those with friends or the world at large. A range of formatting options enables the maps to be highly customized and include images or video. Maps can be created “manually” by […]