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Archive for March 23rd, 2008

Barack Obama vs. Hillary Clinton vs. John McCain - Voting Schedules

Posted in analysis of behavior, politics, search, tagged , , on March 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Observe this graph of Google search traffic by the remaining candidates.
Blue is Barack Obama, Red is Hillary Clinton, Orange is John McCain

The spikes all correlate with voting days or the day after.
I have nothing profound to say other than it’s pretty interesting that the days when tons of people seek info is after the die [...]

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Social Networking and Behavioral Targeting Response

Posted in analysis of behavior, data mining, online advertising, social networks, tagged , , , , , on March 23, 2008 | No Comments »

I received the following from a director of ad operations, Jeremy Jones, in response to yesterday’s post on collective behavior and the other day’s post on vertical media.  His remarks focus on the confusion over social networking advertising (both selling and buying).  I include the full remark here and an annotated remark below.
[Social networks/social [...]

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