Early this afternoon, I found Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul sandwiched between Ellen Degeneres and Fred Thompson’s wife, and I’m guessing the experience made the 72-year-old congressman from Texas a bit uncomfortable.
My chance encounter with Ron Paul came after reading a Reuter’s story, Sex, Nazi, burrito and Viagra: Who Googles What?, which highlighted how Google Trends tracks popular keywords and the countries from which searches for those words were initiated most often. After reading the article, I decided to visit Google Trends and found the following search terms described as “Today’s Hot Trends“:
- jessica mcclure
- moms and mutts
- bree tierney
- superbug
- lisa g
- santorum
- staph infection
- actor pickens
- colbert for president
- stephen colbert
Below the list above was another entry — More Hot Trends » — which I clicked upon to see if I would find “Ron Paul” in the 11th spot.
Unfortunately for his followers and members of the news media who thrive on painting Ron Paul as the darling of the internet, I didn’t find his name there. Instead, I had to wade through 17 more entries before finding the only Ron Paul-related entry among the Top 100 Hot Trends.
In the 26th spot, I found Ron Paul — specifically, ron paul press conference — wedged between ellen degeneres on his left and fred thompson wife on his right.
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8 responses so far ↓
1 steve // Oct 17, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Ron Paul is winning!! http://www.ronpaul2008.com
2 MrTom // Oct 17, 2007 at 5:49 pm
But did you find any other candidate ? and if so where McCtwist ?
3 hotoffthepress // Oct 17, 2007 at 5:54 pm
MrTom — Am I to conclude that Ron Paulites have no sense of humor? Surely not! Say it isn’t so!
4 mcthorogood // Oct 17, 2007 at 6:14 pm
Ever wonder what might happen if the leading Republican candidate got elected? Google “Rudy’s Apocalypse” and watch the Talking Points Memo video.
5 hotoffthepress // Oct 17, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Actually, I would probably prefer Ron Paul to Rudy Giuliani. Shows how few choices we really have. The only good choice available is Mike Huckabee.
6 Jason // Oct 17, 2007 at 9:30 pm
Ron Paul versus Rudy Guiliani and Mitt Romney
http://google.com/trends?q=ron+paul%2C+rudy+giuliani%2C+mitt+romney&ctab=0&hl=en&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
Also check out http://www.ronpaulgraphs.com.
7 hotoffthepress // Oct 17, 2007 at 9:51 pm
Jason — Your point?
8 Skunkfeathers // Oct 18, 2007 at 6:27 am
This merely proves that Google has a weird sense of ranking humor ;-)
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