People weren’t just sitting back and watching President Barack Obama’s inauguration yesterday.They were commenting on Twitter, sharing information on Facebook and turning to Google in significant numbers to find live video and audio of inauguration activities in Washington.According to a blog post by Jeffrey Oldham, a software engineer at Google Inc., and Fred Leach, the company’s quantitative marketing manager, the top Google queries sought live inauguration coverage and streaming videos. The Google bloggers noted that 12% of inauguration-related searches came from outside the U.S.
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Google’s inauguration searches show a changing Internet
People weren’t just sitting back and watching President Barack Obama’s inauguration yesterday. They were commenting on Twitter, sharing information on Facebook and turning to Google in significant numbers to find live video and audio of inauguration activities in Washington.