A little back, I wrote a post noticing that there are a lot of Google searches for “is Geithner Jewish?” and similar questions. Far be it from me to understand the workings of the Googlecosm, but I surmised that some of the people performing this search are anti-semitic or in some way looking for “evidence” [...]
Friday, February 13, 2009
I don’t know whether Tim Giethner, President Obama’s Treasury Secretary, is Jewish, and I certainly don’t care. (Update: He’s not). Which is why I was surprised, and pretty creeped out, to see that the search query “geithner jewish” is one of Google’s top phrases surrounding his name. Here’s a screenshot from Google Insights [...]
Monday, September 29, 2008
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 [...]
Sunday, September 21, 2008
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 [...]
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Today’s search trends could be a study in the bipolar mood of our country: stressed and anxious about the economy on the one hand, and blissfully absorbed in the trivialities of life on the other.
A big chunk of the Google Hot Search trends today relate in some way to the economy, for example:
constellation energy
fed rate [...]