Sarah Palin The Most Searched-For Candidate On The Internet
Of course, to be fair, there aren’t a lot of people searching for “barack obama bikini.”
On the Richter scale of Internet search energy, Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s announcement on Friday that he had chosen Sarah Palin, the current governor of Alaska, as his running mate measured a magnitude 10. If you compare the number of searches for “John McCain,” “Barack Obama” or “Joe Biden” with those for “Sarah Palin,” there’s no contest. In just two days, the number of U.S. Internet searches for “Sarah Palin” reached a peak greater than any other political personality in the past three years. In the week ending Aug. 30, 2008, searches for Governor Palin were almost four times as popular as Obama searches, eight times as popular as McCain searches and over 10 times more popular than searches for Biden.
So, what exactly are Palin searchers seeking?
Of the 1,323 unique search queries containing “Sarah Palin” over the past four weeks, there were many that you’d normally expect to see regarding a newly named vice-presidential candidate: queries about Palin’s biography, for example, her voting record and her stance on abortion. The No. 1 search was simply “Sarah Palin.” The next nine most popular search terms that appeared in conjunction with “Sarah Palin” were:
2. Vogue Magazine
3. Photos
4. Beauty Pageant
5. Bio
6. Biography
7. Pictures
8. Scandal
9. Alaska Governor
10. Hot
And if you look more carefully at the 1,300 searches Hitwise tracked, one of the most commonly entered search topics surrounding Palin was “hot photos.” (Hitwise search data updates weekly on Mondays, so information on searches related to the news of Palin’s pregnant teen daughter, Bristol, were not yet available.) Other queries common to the American public: “Sarah Palin Bikini Photos,” “Sarah Palin Naked,” “Sarah Palin Nude.” People also searched frequently for Palin’s physical stats — particularly her age and height — as they did with the other candidates and running mates.
Just more evidence to prove that men are pigs.
Don’t get me wrong. Palin is smokin’, but you’ve got to be operating on your last living brain cell to think that you can pull up Google and find some bikini pictures of a US governor. Let alone a new VP pick.
