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Looking back in time for context
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Posted by Jack Hebert, Software Engineer
News coverage usually focuses on the most recent events, and when we
first launched quotes
, we did the same. However, past events frequently provide context that helps us better understand the present. With this in mind, we recently extended our quotes coverage back to 2003. Hopefully this new data (our quotes index grew 15x in size!) will help shed light on what people have thought and said over time, and how their views have changed.
As always, to find a person's quotes you can search for their
name
on Google News, and if we have any quotes from that person, they'll appear in a onebox at the top of the page. Click on the 'more by' link and from there you can simply browse through all our quotes from that person, or filter them to a specific year using the links on the left. Try comparing Alan Greenspan's quotes on the economy from
2004
to those from
2008
:
People running for office are some of the most prolific speakers, especially on economic matters.
In Quotes
makes it easy to compare what
McCain and Obama
have said about the economy (or, try comparing
Palin and Biden
.)
Of course, quotes are not restricted to politics--there are also many from sports figures. See what Michael Phelps said about the
2004
and
2008
Olympic games, or what Roger Federer has been saying about
Wimbledon
.
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