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Today’s Google Searches: “McCain on Letterman” & more

Friday, October 17, 2008

The 3rd debate didn’t seem to create much of a blip in Google search. “joe the plumber” seems to be ready to fade from the public consciousness. And with doom in the economy, our minds are turned to entertainment. It’s not enough for politicians to solve our financial problems, they must also MAKE US LAUGH! [...]

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post-Debate Google Searches: ‘joe the plumber’, ‘repudiate’

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Just like last time, people were Googling topics and words as they came up in tonight’s debate. Hot trends as of 7:55 (PT) include: joe the plumber repudiate reputiated (sic) cockamamie repudiate definition who’s winning the debate I love the searches that come up for words that people don’t know. John McCain repeatedly called on [...]

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pre-Debate Google Searches: Obama Tax Calculator and Palin as President

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Buzzing in Google’s Hot Trends this evening are two fun searches: “obama tax calculator” and “palin as president.” The first search (hotness: “on fire” as seen in the pic) refers to the tax calculator created by the Obama campaign, which tells me that not only will my taxes go down, but Barack Obama will personally [...]

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Google Searches on the Day of the 4th Debate

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Here’s an easy prediction: the 4th debate is going to gather a lot less interest than the previous three. The number of Google searches for the third debate were significantly down from the first two, and that one was such a total snooze that I can’t imagine a lot of people are jumping out of [...]

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More Post-Debate Google Searches: “mccain that one”

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Google Hot Trends for October 7th, post debate at about 9:55 PT include a host of new searches related to the infamous “that one” comment by McCain: that one mccain that one mccain calls obama that one that one debate Ouch – that one’s gonna hurt. I think it’s pretty obvious that McCain was just [...]

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