The Googleblog is offering some great insights into what Americans were searching on during and after the last presidential debate. This information provides great insights into what issues people are interested. This information would have a greater impact for politicians than any poll or survey that the major media likes to push out to everyone. Polls and surveys require some intrusion and can be much more filtered by user bias. Search data like this is much less biased and it gets to the core issues that the voters care about.
This could be huge if used correctly
Maybe this will lead to a politician who uses this data and actually focuses on the issues instead of the current mess we have. It would be a refreshing change it that were to happen but I imagine it will take a while for them to catch on and start utilizing the great resource that search data provides.
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