Wine is now more interesting than John McCain

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Is this a bear market?

Or are we all just talking about the financial bail-out? Judge for yourself:

Scale is based on the average worldwide traffic of "bear market" in the last 12 months. Learn more "bear market" 1.00 "financial bailout" 0.15

Senator Joe Who?!...

Poor Joe. Look at the attention being given Palin, Obama, McCain and Biden in recent weeks:

biden 1.00 palin 6.60 obama 4.80 mccain 3.00

Hottest California wine region?

Looks like Napa and Sonoma duke it out each year, leaving Lodi in the dust:

napa 1.00 sonoma 0.94 lodi 0.23

Convergence of some investment vehicles

real estate 1.00 gold 0.76 stocks 0.09 bonds 0.10 oil 0.60

If media coverage and public attention matter in the U.S. presidential election...

then Obama has it hands-down over McCain:

mccain 1.00 obama 4.10

Fork it over, Spoon

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Oprah, Brittney and Hillary

Maybe Oprah should run for President. Brittney or Hillary for VP

Bush, Cruise, Obama

Gerorge Bush, Tom Cruise, Barack Obama

George Bush definitely in the lead here, but Tom Cruise occasionally gives him a run for his money, and Barack coming on strong.

Linux vs Windows: a race towards irrelevance

In the tech world, Linux versus Windows has been a long point of interest and contention. Among Internet users broadly, though, you can see the battle lines have been rigidly drawn, and the matter continues to dwindle in overall importance in the Internet space:

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Oddly, the press seems to be increasingly engaging the topic of Windows (see bottom graph of news volume), despite diminishing overall interest.