Mark Forscher

Google’s In Quotes recently launched. The site allows users to cycle between quotes from 20 politicians on an array of issues. The interface promotes a head to head style comparison of quotes from two politicians on the same issue. Above is a screenshot of McCain versus McCain on the economy.

While the UI is fairly intuitive, the limitation of the project’s implementation is the content and the lack of an API. I know the election is coming up, but why am I limited to quotes from twenty politicians when services like Daylife pull timely quotes from everything that’s newsworthy? And why are there only a handful of quotes on these major policy issues from the candidates?

I guess this works as a proof of concept, but it’s not very useful until there’s a lot more content surfaced and it’s opened up with an API.