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 [...]