A Google Straw Poll

I decided it would be fun (for me at least) to track the presidential candidates impact upon the world wide web over time. Think of this as the internet's straw poll, as measured by Google search results.

Methodology (In the loosest sense of the word imaginable): I searched on Google for each candidate, their name in quotation marks, along with the word "presidency." I limited the results to the last three months only. (For example, ["Barack Obama" presidency].) I then made a note of the number of results found for each. For each candidate I used their name the way their official campaign website uses it, e.g. "Chris Dodd" instead of "Christopher Dodd".

Here is how the Democrats broke down (results in millions):

Hillary Clinton: 2.20
Barack Obama: 2.14
John Edwards: 1.96
Bill Richardson: 1.72
Dennis Kucinich: 1.68
Joe Biden: 1.46
Chris Dodd: 1.05
Mike Gravel: 0.91

And For The Republicans:

Fred Thompson: 3.86
Mitt Romney: 1.99
John McCain: 1.96
Ron Paul: 1.92
Rudy Giuliani: 1.89
Sam Brownback: 1.30
Tom Tancredo: 1.17
Duncan Hunter: 1.14
Mike Huckabee: 1.06
Tommy Thompson: 0.93

I also looked into some folks not running to see how they are doing:

Ralph Nader: 1.46
Newt Gingrich: 1.78

And most disturbingly:

Al Gore: 12.40

Take them for what they might be worth...which could be exactly nothing.

Interesting nonetheless.