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Google’s Official Blog: Election Day Searches

Monday, November 17, 2008

It’s fun to see other blogs touching upon the subject that I’ve been tracking on this blog.  Here is a link to the Official Google Blog’s own Election day commentary on search popularity!  I’m glad they did this, since frankly, on election day I was busy doing other things.
-The Google Pollster

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Obama day searches: voting results and moving on

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

This morning’s searches looked back at the night before: vote results, electoral vote counts, mccain speech, barack obama acceptance speech, world reaction to election.
This afternoon’s searches are looking forward: rahm emanuel, chief of staff, obama transition team, obama cabinet, inauguration day 2009.
And coming in at Google hot trend #100 this afternoon: “palin 2012.”
Looking ahead, indeed!

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Eleventh Hour Election Searches: “proposition [x]” and “where to vote”

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

The night before the election, people are looking for the locations of polls near them (”where do I vote”), and similar logistics (”what time do polls open”, “voting polls hours”).
On a more disturbing note, there are searches for “check voter registration” and “am i registered to vote.” As my 5th grade art teacher (yes, [...]

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Links to Interactive Electoral Map and Electoral Vote Counts

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Here’s a bit of search clairvoyance for my readers: I predict that in, oh, 48 hours or so, Google searches for “electoral map” and “electoral vote” are going to go through the roof. So, I’m going to get in early with links to my favorite online, interactive electoral maps:

Electoral-vote.com The grand-daddy of electoral maps, [...]

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