Wednesday, October 1, 2008
It looks like Barack Obama jumped on the wrong right bandwagon. “Hope” “Fear” seems to have had its peak in late 2005, and has been in decline ever since - while “fear” “hope” is is holding steady. Be sure to take note of the gradual, inexorable rise in news volume for the word “fear.” [...]
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Today’s hot trends in Google search are dominated by TV: people are especially interested in the premier of the tv show, The Office.
But mingled in among the TV searches are a couple of the most intriguing searches I’ve seen lately:
mccain stroke
palin witchcraft
So, why are people searching for these terms? Is Sarah Palin going to put [...]
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
I can see on Google Trends this evening (Wednesday) that tons of people are searching on Google for “palin emails” and related queries:
1.
wikileaks palin
2.
palin emails
3.
gawker
My advice: don’t bother. The emails are boring as all heck. I almost wonder if they were purposely leaked by the Palin camp to prove that she doesn’t have [...]
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
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 [...]
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 [...]