"At Google, we pride ourselves on helping people find things on the Internet. And every four years in America, Google Trends shows that people are searching to find voting information, like how to register and where to vote. It's hard to believe that in 2008, information so important to U.S. citizens and the democratic process isn't well organized on the web. To solve this problem, we've released our US Voter Info site, an effort to simplify and centralize voting locations and registration information."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/greater-access-to-voting-information.html [permalinked]
http://http://maps.google.com/maps/mpl?moduleurl=http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/mapplets/elections/2008/us-voter-info/us-voter-info.xml
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/20081022_voting.html
Google also started to place advertisements on YouTube for Google Maps election site. These are next and in a video.
http://www.websonic.nl/nieuws/102008/images/youtube_elections.jpg
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Here's the voting location onebox, visible in the US on queries like [where do I vote?] or [voting locations], as Search Engine Land reports:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3065/2965154944_6c71cc634f_o.png
http://searchengineland.com/where-do-i-vote-google-maps-shows-the-way-15225.php |
