Friday, February 27, 2009

More on buyers remorse

A while ago I wrote about the possibility of buyer's remorse with elected officials (here and here). I have now heard the term being applied to President Obama, so this morning (Feb 27, 2009) I googled "buyers remorse" President Obama. There were 7520 matches on the web, and 2199 for blogs. I looked at a couple and was led to this article, which does not actually use the term. I will be updating the count over time.
Update:
March 7, 2009, 1:00 CDT: web 10400, blogs 2918
(I checked to see if there were entries under "buyers regret." There were a total 249 on the web and 42 in blogs. Apparently people know the proper term.)
March 11 at 10:00 pm 9270 and for the web, 2682 for blogs (how did they go down?)
for "buyers regret, 291 and 51
Meanwhile, over on yahoo the first page of the search says 1 - 10 of 170,00, and the same search on Live Search gives 1-10 of 30,300 results. That is a pretty big difference than what is happening on Google.
March 20 on Google: 10300 for the web and 2818 for blogs at 9:00 pm. Meanwhile, there are 195000 on yahoo and 31,400 on Live Search.
April 25, 2009: Google about 11,000 for web and about 3098 for blogs. Yahoo says 326,000 and Live Search says 60,100.
August 14, 2009: Google has 9640 for the web and 2696 for blogs. (The number has decreased. How do you explain that?) Yahoo has 134,00 and Live Search (now Bing) says 151,000.
Sept 30 2009 at 2:20 CDT: Google has 14800 for the web and 3484 for blogs. Yahoo says 159.000 and Bing says 91,600.

Nov 23, 2009 10PM CST: Google has 30600 for the web and 4564 for blogs. Yahoo hs 151,000 and Bing has 69,700. Now Google is saying that there is an increase, but Yahoo and Bing say the number is decreasing.
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This exercise has made me much more skeptical of the numbers that appear on searches.
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data from Jan 5, 2010 12:30 a.m.
Google web 28900; blogs 3931; Yahoo 135,000 and Bing 77,400
data from June 19, 5:15 p.m.
Google web 27100; blogs 2570; Yahoo 136,009; and Bing 61,100
data from July 23, 2010 2:00 pm
Google web 22,100. blogs 2580; Yahoo 137,003, and Bing 70,600

data from August 13, 2011 8:22 pm
Google web 367,00; blogs 52900; Yahoo 71700; Live Search 70400

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