When I was looking for a picture of Obama for my last post, I found the results interesting. So I decided to compare them to the image search for McCain. And once again, it is obvious that Obama's team gets it when it comes to the use of the internet and McCain's team simply doesn't keep up.
Let's look at the results. Here are the results for Obama as they were at the time of my search:
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What I found interesting here is that the first image of Obama is of him in a swim suit and below there's a text saying Obama is cute, charismatic and ... Coincident? Naah, hardly.
All in all, there are 12 pictures in the first two rows, one including him with Superman, 7 of him smiling, and only 1 with negative humor and one irrelevant.
When I did the same search for McCain, this is what I found:
(again, you can click the image to see it larger)
Look at the first image here. Quite different from the one in Obama's serp. McCain looking mean. Five of the images show him smiling, two show him mean, two show him looking funny and two are negative humor and one showing him in a funny hug with president Bush.
What do you think? Is this a coincident or are some campaigners "optimizing" the results?
Hjörtur
I don't doubt that politicians would love to affect Google Image SERP's, but I seriously doubt that they have the know how on how to do it.
Basically these results reflect the anti-establishment bias of the online media. In US it's cool to hate the Republicans and in the EU it's cool to hate the EU bureaucracy. Same thing.
I bet that if Obama wins these elections, 4 years from now he will be the damaged party in such a contest. Power has its price.
Best regards, George Cozma
Posted by: George Cozma | September 18, 2008 at 10:20 AM