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Thursday, September 25, 2008
Posted by Jack Hebert, Software Engineer
While political consistency (or inconsistency) can be funny, as John Stewart pointed out in a
recent episode of the Daily Show
, it can also be a serious political matter.
With upcoming elections in the United States and Canada, we've built a tool that you can use to compare what candidates and other political figures are saying about different issues: we call it "
In Quotes
." As you might know, Google News already
extracts quotes
from news articles. Even so, it was a pretty tedious process to compare what two people were saying about a particular topic.
As you might have guessed, In Quotes allows you to do just that. You can easily read what, for example, John McCain and Barack Obama have already said about the
economy, education or energy
(that's just the e's!). There are more people to select from beyond the US presidential candidates, though, and we also have customized lists of people and topics for
Canada
, the
United Kingdom
and
India
. You can scroll through quotes for each topic, or click the "spin" button to see a random quote for the issue. As with our existing quotes feature, the quotes are automatically selected from Google News articles. It's also worth pointing out that we've launched this feature in Google Labs, which means that it's an experimental feature for the moment.
If you dig on political gadgetry (like I do) you should check out Google's other
election-related projects
, or another cool take on
quotations in the news
. Happy spinning!
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