Sarah Palin Most Searched For Term on Internet Since Al Gore Invented It
Posted on September 5th, 2008 by Paul Woodhouse in Political Marketing, Search Engines
TAGS: google trends, lipstick, pitbull, sarah palin

Now here’s the closest thing I could find to a pitbull wearing lipstick, and probably a reminder why you don’t leave pooches alone with your make-up bag. I mean, it’s the wrong color for its fur-tone and everything.
Although I did find this chavette pikey pic of a pitbull wearing a hoodie languishing in Google’s image search:

I shall avoid any political reference to Ms. Palin, and I’m only mentioning her at all to point out that since she’s been plucked from relative obscurity last week, she’s (to quote fivethirtyeight.com) generated more US-based internet search traffic than Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Michael Phelps and Barack Obama combined:

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Yes, ironic isn’t it.
Anyway, you can go and play around with Google Trends and put in the names of you and your competitors to see who has that certain flavor of the month edge. Or you can throw some keywords related to your business or industry and see which are generating more buzz than a beekeepers convention.
Chances are, you’ll be flatlining in comparison to Jerry Springer+Palin.
Paul - Met with one of your faithful readers in Charleston, WV yesterday who wanted to know why you had a make up bag. Without taking this somewhere neither of us wants a business blog to go, my response was that you’re British. You know, Eddie Izzard and the like.
Comment by Justin Seibert on September 10, 2008
By faithful readers do you mean one of your cronies?
Good answer. Being British does indeed mean you never have to explain oneself.
And besides, nobody remotely understands you if you try.
Comment by Paul Woodhouse on September 10, 2008
Good save Paul.
From the cronie….
Comment by Todd Beane on September 11, 2008