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Google News Result Manipulated by Comments?

I’m taking a small digression today. This post isn’t about a Google search trend, but instead, a fascinatingly weird result I’m seeing in Google News. Here are the Google News listings that showed up at the top of my Google results for the word “obama” this evening:
Take a look at that third listing. [...]

Back to Basics: Google Searches for “Palin” vs. “McCain” vs. “Obama”

Here is a chart showing Google searches for “palin” over the last 30 days, compared with “mccain” and “obama”. As you can see, searches for Ms. Palin rose dramatically after the announcement of the VP choice, but have fallen off since then, although she is still (as of 9/15) roughly twice as high as [...]