September 01, 2004

Buzz on Political Daughters

Tracking trends on the Internet through search is actually a really cool job. I get to put my finger right on what people are looking for every day…and I know more about Britney Spears, J. Lo, and Paris Hilton than I ever truly wanted to.

Right now, one of the hottest topics on Yahoo! Search is the offspring of presidential candidates. Between appearances at the MTV Video Music Awards and the RNC, political daughters are red-hot right now. Searches on the Bush twins and the Kerry sisters spiked dramatically over the last week as this graph illustrates:

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Jenna Bush leads the pack followed closely by Alexandra Kerry. Queries on “Kerry Daughters” and “Bush Twins” are also up over 500% in the past week.

Shameless plug here — if you’re interested in trends and the latest in pop culture, top search terms from the Buzz Index are also available via RSS feeds.

Erik Gunther
Yahoo! Buzz Index Editor

Comments

  1. Well.. .Even more amazing !
    In France, as it is the 60’s birsthday of the Debarquement (American help for France Liberation in 1945)
    => Try to see how many people did search “debarquement” [+/-7000*] and how many people did search “perle” [+/- 70 000* - bead] or “broderie” [+/- 20 000* - embroidery]

    Well, where are we going, if in the old Europa even those people who must remember, only have interest in little things ?

    * In July – From Overture
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    http://www.foudecosse.com
    The first step to Scotland

  2. tarikh_shafahi@yahoo.com hay man i am from iran , and in my country , the family of candidates in elections don`t come to the race :D ! but another isue : i guess i have not another way to ask this , I want big pictures from iran in athens alympics , how may i have them via yahoo , cause your website had the bigest archive about the olympics , but the pics were not so big , please help me what i should do

  3. Good job Yahoo. I like the graph. My money is Jenna! Go Jenna go!