Google, in collaboration with Hindustan Times, has launched a mashup website on the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections in 2009. You can get all the updates and political news. If you select your area you can obtain candidate profiles, the demographics of the area like how many households have electricity and how many our below the poverty line etc.
But the shady aspect is that the website is mostly tailored to promote the HT agenda and in fact when I conducted a few searches the highlighted candidate profiles mostly belonged to the Congress. Even the news headlines from HT are colored. But this can be a nice inspiration for other parties and organizations to start such online information resources.



