Last year, visitors to OpenSecrets.org used our search function more than 15 million times. And when they did, we asked them to refine their search and to tell us what type of thing they were looking for: an influential person, an organization, a donor, keyword or zip code. Well, not anymore!
Today we are releasing our new search function to help you find just that significant piece of information you need. The OpenSecrets.org website is composed of hundreds of thousands of pages with information changing daily. And each one of these pages is chock full of dozens of individual data items you want to search.
Enter your search term and press the search button under the Action Center tab on the home page and at the very top right of every other page on the site.
Entering a state name or zip code takes you directly to a profile for that geographic unit, but everything else embarks on an extensive search of millions of records and provides the results organized on tabs for Politicians & Lobbyists, Organizations, Donors, Capital Eye News and Google. On the organizations tab, you can choose to display your information by category or alphabetically and toggle between the two.
Sample result:
On the individual donors tab, you can display the contribution records right within the search framework, and even filter by state.
We’re already busy planning the next round of improvements to our search function, and would love to get your feedback. Please take the quick, six-question survey to let us know what you think of this new search and what you’d like to see in the future.
Source: OpenSecrets.org
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