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Article: Getting in Google's Face.(TechBytes)(Website list)
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- Campaigns & Elections
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- August 1, 2008
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A handful of new websites are hoping to wean political junkies from Google. They're all vying to become the next go-to spot for people searching for campaign coverage.
Although each site takes its own approach, they all incorporate social networking and aim to inject a human element into online searching.
Loud3r, launched in June, combines human editors with computer algorithms. The site offers more than two dozen search pages, each dedicated to a single topic. The political page is dubbedVot3r. Other topical pages include wine, baseball, music and motorcycles.
The advantage is the ability to distinguish relevant results, according to Lowell Goss, Loud3r's founder ...