Election-Trends: The Google Search Pollster

I’ve written before about Rick Santorum’s painful Google results.  Uh oh, they did it again!  Google is now showing, ahem, an undesirable #2 result for the search query “romney”, as seen here:   Why does this keep happening? Maybe it’s because politicians let advertising agencies handle their search engine optimization needs.  (Psssst.  Hey candidates.  How [...]

Do Google search trends indicate voter preferences?  I’m guessing they do.  At the very least, you can be sure that Google searches indicate the public’s level of interest and curiosity about a candidate. I looked at search trends over the last 90 days for these three likely presidential contenders’ names: mitt romney michelle bachmann rick [...]

Fox television personality Glenn Beck’s influence is rising, and Politico questions whether he has eclipsed Rush Limbaugh as the conservative “man of the moment.” The Google Trends graph shows the number of searches for “glenn beck” passed the number of searches for “rush limbaugh” in early August of this year: ..and searches for Mr. Beck’s [...]