Posts Tagged ‘ Election2008 ’
The inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States was a major event for US Internet users on Tuesday since many needed to rely upon online streaming on news websites to view the event from work. As one might expect, the Broadcast Media and Politics categories were the main beneficiaries from [...][ READ MORE ]
Early voting has been underway in many states and Internet users are turning to search to help them find out about the process. The term ‘early voting’ was ranked fourth among the Fast Moving Search Terms for the Politics category for the 4 weeks ending 10/25/2008 as compared to previous 4 week period. Another common [...][ READ MORE ]
The Wall Street crisis and potential bailout is certainly top of mind for many consumers, but tragedy sent Travis Barker (former drummer of Blink 182 and star of MTV’s Meet the Barkers) to the top of Fast Moving Search Terms last week. On Friday, Travis and Adam Goldstein (DJ AM) escaped from a plane crash [...][ READ MORE ]
Once the major news outlets received the word that Obama had selected Senator Joe Biden of Delaware as his running mate, the announcement immediately resulted in a huge increase in the volume of searches for the search term ‘joe biden’ as internet users sought to learn more about Obama’s VP pick. The majority of searches [...][ READ MORE ]
During the primaries we took a look at the visitation to the websites of presidential candidate hopefuls to predict the winners by state. Now that the nominations have been decided and the DNC is underway with the RNC not far behind, I thought it would be interesting to revisit this analysis. Below is an electoral [...][ READ MORE ]
Last week, the forthcoming Democratic National Convention and Vice-President selection drove the 2nd highest share of visits to each of the websites of the presidential candidates in the past year. The only week with a higher share of visits included the Super Tuesday primaries. The market share of visits to BarackObama.com jumped 53% and 46% [...][ READ MORE ]
Now that we are halfway through 2008, I figured that it is time to check on the two Presidential candidates and see who is visiting their websites. To make things interesting, I turned to our Mosaic Lifestyle segments to see which US Internet users identify as a supporter of the Democratic or Republican parties, or [...][ READ MORE ]
Coverage of Tuesday’s election results drove the market share of visits to the News & Media category to the 2nd highest peak in the past 36 months on Wednesday, February 6th, 2008. The market share of visits for News & Media reached 4.65% across all categories, second only to the traffic spike on August 28, [...][ READ MORE ]
My TIME column about the politics of search is online here. Here’s some additional data that I didn’t include in the article (for all of the ILoveData fans). Caveat, searches for candidates prior to elections do not equate to votes, however the data does provide some interesting insight into which candidates are currently top-of-mind for [...][ READ MORE ]
Today Time.com published my second column for The Science of Search (In case you missed the first column on the 4 Day Diet you can find it here). For those of you that have been reading the Hitwise Intelligence blog you know that we’ve posted several charts on searches for potential presidential candidates. In the [...][ READ MORE ]
