July 01, 2008

Mid-year Presidential Candidate Check

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...
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February 11, 2008

Super Tuesday results drives traffic spikes for News & Media websites

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 &...
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Election 2008 Update

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,...
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Top Candidates, the Science of Search and Time.com

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...
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January 23, 2007

Clinton Campaign Website Receives 2X More Traffic than Obama Website on Campaign Announcment Day

Saturday's launch of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign sent traffic to her campaign website soaring as voters sought more information. On January 20, 2007, the market share of visits to HillaryClinton.com was more than 2X greater than the market share of...
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January 18, 2007

Obama Clinton Chart Updated with Edwards

Loren Baker over at Search Engine Journal requested that I update my chart from this post to include John Edwards. I intentionally omitted Edwards from the previous chart because our search term analysis reveals that over 15% of searchers for...
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January 16, 2007

Obama versus Clinton - Barack Advantage in Key States

In light of today's news that Barack Obama is filing campaign papers today for the 2008 Presidential election, I've assembled a quick chart comparing the popularity of Obama compared to Clinton based on search queries for the two potential candidates....
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November 06, 2006

Mid-term Visits to Politics Category a Fraction of Presidential Election Traffic

As we head into mid-term elections this week, the visits to the Lifestyle - Politics category, a collection of 863 sites was nearly 1/3rd less then visits to the same category the Presidential Elections the first week of November 2004....
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