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Category Archives: Politics
Obama Mania
January 27, 2009
As 2 million Americans in Washington witnessed the historic inauguration of president elect, Barack Obama on 20 January 2009 – we were also watching down under, online. According to Hitwise, Barack Obama (www.barackobama.com), the campaign website of president elect Barack Obama, was ranked 2nd in the Lifestyle – Politics industry for the 21/01/2009 and experienced a 72.82% market share increase from the 20/01/2009.
The top three downstream websites to receive traffic from the Barack Obama website for the 21/01/2009, were Facebook, Wikipedia and MySpace.
Interestingly, the search term variations for ‘barack obama’ for the four week period ending 17/01/2009 included: ‘barack obama inauguration’, ‘barack obama acceptance speech’ and ‘barack obama shirtless’. Now you know.
Posted at 10:52 AM
In Categories Politics
Betting on the election more popular than betting on Australian Idol
November 22, 2007
A Hitwise Australia search term suggestion report on the term ‘betting’ indicates that ‘election betting’ was the 5th most popular variation (out of 1586 terms), while ‘australian idol betting’ ranked at #13 for the 4 weeks ending 17 November 2007. To give some indication of the willingness of users to take a punt, a search variation report on ‘election’ shows that users were more likely to search for ‘election betting’ at #14 than ‘federal election date’ at #15 and ‘election promises’ at #26 out of over 7,000 search terms. Now you know.
Posted at 09:45 AM
In Categories Politics
Australian Internet users know their APEC from their OPEC
September 12, 2007
According to Hitwise, www.opec.org's ranking peaked at 14,001 in All Categories, based on Australian Internet usage, on Friday 7th September, 2007; the day that President Bush thanked John Howard "for being such a fine host for the OPEC summit". On the other hand, www.apec2007.org ranked at 820 on Friday 7th September, 2007 - just below its highest rank of 592 experienced on Sunday 2nd September, 2007.
Posted at 01:24 PM
In Categories Politics
Political sites - searching for truth
May 31, 2007
According to Hitwise New Zealand, some of the top search terms driving traffic to the Lifestyle - Politics category for the week ending 26/05/07 include ‘what really happened’, ‘family first’, ‘antiwar’ and ‘Michael Moore’. The top websites in the category include ‘The Truth Laid Bear’ (www.truthlaidbear.com), ‘No Right Turn’ (norightturn.blogspot.com) and ‘frogblog’ (blog.greens.org.nz).
Posted at 02:14 PM
In Categories Politics
Personal Searches for Howard and Rudd
May 17, 2007
According to Hitwise Australia, Australian web users are interested in John Howard’s height and Kevin Rudd’s wedding. Of the top ten search terms used for John Howard for the four week period ending 12/05/2007, ‘John Howard lies’ was the third most popular. Also featured in the list are ‘John Howard soundboard’ and ‘John Howard height’. For Kevin Rudd, Australian’s are searching for information about his life. The top ten list includes ‘Kevin Rudd biography’ ‘Kevin Rudd’s wife’ and ‘Kevin Rudd wedding’.
Posted at 09:57 AM
In Categories Politics
Green Homes Labor Pledge
April 30, 2007
According to Hitwise Australia, searches for 'green energy' have risen in Australia over recent weeks. Some of the most popular water tank related searches conducted by Australian Internet users have been 'water tank', 'water tank rebate', 'rain water tank', 'water tank installation' and 'water tank prices'. Now you know.
Posted at 10:03 AM
In Categories Politics
GetUp! - A Political Mover and Shaker
April 10, 2007
According to Hitwise Australia, the website GetUp! which promotes political participation has increased in market share of visits by 800% within the Lifestyle - Politics category over the past three weeks ending Saturday 8th April, 2007. Hitwise Search Intelligence data demonstrates that some of the most popular searches delivering traffic to the website recently were 'david hicks' and 'david hicks campaign'. Now you know.
Posted at 04:23 PM
In Categories Politics