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What We’ve All Been Waiting For: “tina fey palin snl”

Sunday, September 14, 2008

I didn’t watch TV last night, but looking at Google Trends this morning, I can tell what was on Saturday Night Live: 2. snl palin 3. saturday night live 4. tina fey as sarah palin And now, after watching the bit on the show (sorry – no embedding because it’s already been yanked from YouTube, [...]

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Today’s Google Search Trends: Lipstick and Other Diversions

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Today in the New York Times, Barack Obama is quoted as saying: “We have real problems in this country right now and the American people are looking to us for answers, not distractions, no diversions, not manipulations.” Ohhh, Mr. Obama, I beg to differ. The American people seem to have a bottomless appetite for distraction [...]

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Sarah Palin is “Caribou Barbie”

Saturday, September 6, 2008

I’ve tried to stay about the fray with all the Palin gossip, but I couldn’t resist making note of this new nickname for her: “caribou barbie.” Here are Google searches in the last 30 days: For those unfamiliar with Barbie, this is a reference to Malibu Barbie, who clearly preferred a day of sand and [...]

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Focus on Family (Searching for Politicians’ Family info)

Friday, September 5, 2008

With John McCain’s speech at the GOP convention behind us, people seem to be very curious about his family. Here are family-related searches I’m seeing in Google hot trends tonight: roberta mccain how old is cindy mccain john mccain’s first wife carol mccain carol shepp mccain family mccain children john mccain family pictures how old [...]

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Let the Bumper Battles Begin

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Here is a chart comparing searches for “obama bumper stickers” vs “mccain bumper stickers”: It looks like Obama is in the lead – will McCain be able to close the bumper sticker gap? Maybe the problem is, the plain ‘ole “Obama” and “McCain” bumper stickers are too boring. Perhaps you’ll enjoy one that says “Now [...]

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