Google Inc. Monday launched a new project that allows Internet users to follow stories read by US presidential candidates Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama in the Google Reader RSS tool. Called Google Power Readers In Politics, it's getting a rare boost with publicity on Google's main search page. The service lets users keep up with news stories and blog posts the candidates are reading, Google said. Launched with the cooperation of the campaigns, it also lets users add the McCain or Obama reading lists to their own Reader feeds, the company added. The site also will track the Reader lists of various political journalists, including Mike Allen from Politico, Arianna Huffington from The Huffington Post and Ruth Marcus from The Washington Post. Adam Ostrow, a blogger at Mashable, noted that while the stories shared in the Reader project likely will be as 'carefully crafted' by the campaigns as the candidates' television commercials and speeches, Google should receive credit for putting together an interesting project that may pull in more Reader users along the way.
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