A clear winner also emerged in the ”best place to get your political coverage” category, as CNNPolitics.com and CNN Politics were both in the top 5% of all searches this evening. And, while the caucuses were the story in Iowa and around the world, many other searches for Iowa also rose to the top, like Population of Iowa, Iowa time zone, Iowa newspaper, and Iowa Secretary of State.
Coming in a distant second were searches related to today’s only college football, BCS game. The Orange Bowl pitted the Kansas Jayhawks against the Virginia Tech Hokies, and for several hours the #2 search in the land was “hokie”. I had no idea what a hokie was, so I had to search for it as well. According to the VT.edu website…it was a word made up by O.M. Stull in 1896, cheering for what is now known as Virginia Tech. Here is the full story…
Our most searched website of the day went to tinypic.com which is a photo and video sharing service. This site is mainly used by teen girls in the U.S. and in November of 2007, it was one of the top 300 most visited sites according to quantcast.com. Rounding out other popular searches for the day included the Vivica A Fox sex tape, Celebrity Apprentice, mattress surfing, and the world series of beer pong. See you back here tomorrow!
