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 the age [...]
UPDATE 10/2/2008: With the Palin vs. Biden debate on the horizon, Google searches for “palin” continue to blow “biden” out of the water. I can tell from my referring keywords list on Google Analytics that a number of folks are trying to find information comparing Palin vs. Biden on the issues; yet the media [...]
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 [...]
On the day after the biggest speech in Barack Obama’s career, the Google Search Trends are all abuzz with Sarah Palin searches, and his name has dropped off the map.
People are thinking about her…
politically: searching for “sarah palin vp”, “mccain palin bumper stickers” and “sarah palin creationism”
physically: searching for “sarah palin vogue”, “sarah palin miss [...]
Here are the top Google “Hot Trends” today that are related to Sarah Palin, the McCain VP pick:
sarah palin
alaska gov. sarah palin
governor of alaska
todd palin
wasilia alaska
mccain running mate
mccain palin
mccain vp
sarah palin vogue magazine
governor palin
mccain vice president
alaska population
sarah palin vice president
palin investigation
palin or vp
state of alaska
I was particularly interested in “sarah palin vogue magazine” and [...]