Tag: 2008

Right on the heels of Yahoo!'s top search announcement last week, Google has posted its annual year-end Zeitgeist report, revealing the year's most popular searches by country. Not surprisingly, President-Elect Obama took first place in the United States' fastest rising general searches, with former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin taking seventh. Interestingly enough, though, Palin ...

The polls are in, and it turns out the winner should actually be dancing from one: the term "Britney Spears" was officially more searched for than "Barack Obama" in 2008. While Obama's presidential victory got more attention than any other story on yahoo.com this year, the more toxic of the two had more total hits. In fact, Obama came in third in overall searches, behind World Wrestling ...

This election cycle is becoming the year politics go super-digital. Take a quick look at any of the candidates' websites -- each one reveals a host of buttons linking to the various candidates' digital outposts on various social Web services. Each site has a blog, a MySpace page, and a YouTube channel. Each one also provides tools to help supporters organize. This is not just the result ...