Google Trends: Curious About Chappaquiddick or Google Bomb by the Right?

by Colby Hall | 1:19 pm, August 26th, 2009

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With news of the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy media outlets have been searching for phrases and narratives to put his death in the proper historic context. It’s true that sometimes no one’s really sure about how we feel about an event or news item — then Google Trends comes along and tells what people are most curious about. Or, there is a right-wing effort to gin the system via “Google Bombing“.

A quick look at Google Trends tells us that there is a vast amount of interest in Chappaquiddick and Mary Jo Kopechne. But there is already a lot of chatter on Twitter that suggests that the preponderance of search queries listed by Google Trends is a result of right-wing “Google Bombing” – a practices intended to influence the ranking of particular pages, in results returned by the Google search engine.

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1.	tropical storm danny
2.	mary jo kopechne
3.	chappaquiddick
4.	chappaquiddick incident
5.	hurricane danny
6.	joan kennedy
7.	kfc new sandwich
8.	vicki kennedy
9.	ted kennedy chappaquiddick
10.	ted kennedy funeral arrangements
11.	crystal renn
12.	azusa fire
13.	chapaquitic
14.	camping sites in nc state parks
15.	mike barnicle
16.	morris fire
17.	ronnie spector
18.	victoria reggie kennedy
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22.	kennedy compound hyannisport
23.	kara kennedy allen
24.	national day of service
25.	kate gosselin on larry king

26.	ted kennedy killed a woman
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38.	curran raclin
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41.	michael jackson still alive
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55.	chappaquiddick island
56.	lizzie miller
57.	rapidshare down
58.	ted kennedy legislative accomplishments
59.	caroline raclin
60.	orchids and growing or planting
61.	mass lottery mega millions
62.	kopechne family
63.	robert byrd
64.	kennedy curse
65.	strom thurmond
66.	standard hotel in manhattan
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68.	jam or jelly
69.	massachusetts lottery
70.	women s equality day
71.	ethel kennedy
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73.	george hamilton
74.	chappaquiddick bridge
75.	msdsm driver

76.	how many kennedys are left
77.	white people stole my car
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79.	john schnatter
80.	president clinton and foreign policy
81.	james auchincloss
82.	angeles national forest fire
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84.	fangorn
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87.	bobby kennedy
88.	ted kennedy mary jo
89.	megan fox catwoman
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91.	ted kennedy s first wife
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98.	shane dawson wikipedia
99.	dove world outreach center
100.	patrick stump arrested