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*That* got our attention: Google Searches about the Congressional Bailout Vote

Finally, something in the political arena was important enough to knock tv shows, celebrity gossip, and football off of the top notches in Google’s Hot Search Trends.
Today’s searches are dominated by questions about the congressional bailout vote, including:

pelosi speech (clocking in at #1
house of representatives
bailout vote
congressional record
house vote
who is my congressman
how they voted
bailout roll call
house [...]

Financial Google Searches Taking the Weekend Off

Finance-related searches typically follow a standard pattern that we see in business web traffic: higher during the work-week, and lower on weekends.
But this is a special week, isn’t it? Apparently not. Searches for financial terms are higher than normal, sure, but they settled down to nearly normal levels over the weekend:
Wondering what searches [...]