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We are all Dying to Know Cindy McCain’s Age

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

I keep seeing searches in Google’s hot trends that are related to Cindy McCain’s age: “how old is cindy mccain”, “cindy mccain age” and so on. Here’s the graph comparing Google searches for “john mccain age” and “cindy mccain age”: I’m glad that we can at least say that we are significantly more interested in [...]

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“creationism” vs. “intelligent design”

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Here is a graph that compares the popularity of Google searches for “creationism” vs. “intelligent design:” Searches for the term “creationism” are roughly constant through the years from 2004 through 2008. Although the intelligent design movement has been active since the 90s, searches for “intelligent design” were very low prior to 2005. The search spiked [...]

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Searches for “born alive” way up in August

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Searches for the words “born alive” are way, way up: In case you’re wondering, no, “born alive” is not the name of a suddenly-popular Motown song. It’s the name of Illinois and federal legislation that Barack Obama didn’t vote for, and the pro-life blogosphere is going ballistic about it. The top search results on Google [...]

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Paris Wins

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Here’s what happened when McCain put out an ad that included Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. There is no increase in searches for McCain or Britney – but Paris creates a spoof ad and gains a massive spike in search popularity. Oh, John McCain. Don’t you know, that no matter what you do, she always [...]

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If You Think I’m… and You Want My…

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Here’s a trend that didn’t come up quite the way I expected: So, am I the only person who just loves the fact that these two searches are tied?

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