Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Today Politico and Huffington Post were writing about expenditures on clothes for Sarah Palin by the RNC over the past couple months. People are searching Google for “palin clothes” today; this comes as no surprise to me — we’ve been obsessed with the governor’s looks for months, as can be seen in these looks-related [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Monday, September 15, 2008
Since mid-July, there has been a significant upturn in the number of searches for both “obama economy” and “mccain economy:”
These searches reflect the obvious and growing questions about how the candidates would handle some very hairy situations in our banking and financial system today. Let’s see what the top results are on Google for [...]
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 is john mccain’s mother
cindy mccain drug addiction
bridget [...]