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Google Searches for Palin Interviews with Gibson, Hannity, and Couric

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Today, I was interested to compare the popularity of searches for the three interviews that Sarah Palin has given, with Charlie Gibson, Sean Hannity, and Katie Couric: Not only is the Couric spike higher, but it is more sustained over a period of five days (so far). The search peak for Palin’s interview with Sean [...]

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

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 [...]

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Palin emails a real snoozer

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

I can see on Google Trends this evening (Wednesday) that tons of people are searching on Google for “palin emails” and related queries: 1. wikileaks palin 2. palin emails 3. gawker My advice: don’t bother. The emails are boring as all heck. I almost wonder if they were purposely leaked by the Palin camp to [...]

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Back to Basics: Google Searches for “Palin” vs. “McCain” vs. “Obama”

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 Obama, [...]

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Tuesday Google Searches: Economy Tanking and Sarah Palin Tanning

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Today’s search trends could be a study in the bipolar mood of our country: stressed and anxious about the economy on the one hand, and blissfully absorbed in the trivialities of life on the other. A big chunk of the Google Hot Search trends today relate in some way to the economy, for example: constellation [...]

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