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A far-flung coalition of groups across the political spectrum supports the idea and their efforts were rewarded Thursday as the Senate passed a bill to build a Google-like search engine to allow people to track online approximately $1 trillion in federal grants, contracts, earmarks and loans....after a remarkable campaign by Internet bloggers to track down those responsible for the delay, Stevens and Byrd let the measure advance.
Senate backs online search of spending [businessweek.com]
Search as a political tool, disguised as a public good... That didn't take long did it?
[edited by: BaseVinyl at 5:10 am (utc) on Sep. 10, 2006]
