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The Obama Experiment

I’m always interested to see the influence of off-line campaigns on on-line search behavior. So when I learned about the ad campaign decrying Obama’s health reform proposal as the “Obama Experiment” — complete with an accompanying website, http://barackobamaexperiment.com/, I was curious whether there would be an increase in searches for “barack obama experiment.”
The answer? Nope, [...]

A Curious Day in Google Search: “mccain stroke” and “palin witchcraft”

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 [...]