Watching Them Watch Over Us

Matt Welch | December 1, 2004

Did you know Google has a government-only search engine? This and a couple dozen other useful tools for watchdogging Uncle Sam in your pajamas are listed in this Wired News article.

Comments

|12.1.04 @ 1:37PM|#

Actually, it seems to sweep in some state government web sites too (try "rules of practice" as a search term).

Matt Welch|12.1.04 @ 1:40PM|#

Removed the "U.S." modifier; thanks alkali.

|12.1.04 @ 2:07PM|#

"Watching Them Watch Over Us"

Oh Yeah, sure, whadya bet this site gets it's biggest workout from folks trying to find what kind of handouts they can get?

|12.1.04 @ 2:39PM|#

My local favorite (State of SC public salaries over 50k):
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/5121963.htm

Being a SC state employee myself, I gladly point out the hypocrisy in wasting that much money on my fellow fat, lazy employees.

|12.1.04 @ 4:56PM|#

Watch them watch you by searching for "Reason Magazine" (in quotes)

|12.1.04 @ 8:08PM|#

Neoconservatives as a rule do not trust the citizenry (of course, that's not peculiar to that particular ideology).

|12.1.04 @ 10:00PM|#

Gary -

And yet you make it a point to single one idealogoy out like it does fit only them only...

let me try -

People with the name Gary are usually stupid (of course it's not peculiar to that name)

Ken Layne|12.2.04 @ 3:15AM|#

Fun searches made easier by Google's USA Patriot Site:

http://www.google.com/unclesam?1&q=ufo

http://www.google.com/unclesam?1&q=lee+harvey+oswald

http://www.google.com/unclesam?1&q=vampirism

Hooray 4 Google ... and, of course, hooray for the U S of A!

|12.18.04 @ 6:07PM|#

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