...my personal but objective meter registered the advent of a tipping point: my Bushie Barometer went negative. Note the box in the right column...it presumes that the identical Google search, conducted from time to time measures in a meaningful way the rise in thought and commuication about a Bush impeachment. on Oct 10 the page count for matches was 999500. on Oct 11 it was 999800 and today, Oct 12 it has gone to 1060000. By the formula I offer, Bush is now in negative territory. Never mind the math. By any accounting his political capital is overspent. His mandate is MIA.
The hottest news lately has centered on the probability and possibility that various members of his administration and their hangers-on may be indicted for politically motivated disclosure of a CIA agent's identity. Not Dubya himself mind you but his coterie of cronies and operatives are actually accused. So why is the man himself finally being called to account in the polls? He did not do anything wrong did he? Reagan wore teflon, Bush, like Nixon, may have rolled in some honey somewhere.
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1210000 pages this morning.
Saturyday 10/15 the page count is 1,320,000 for "impeach bush". What IS the meaning of 100000 new pages with that pair of words?
Sunday 10/16...now at 1,160,000. Google has probably discovered some link-stuffing which they can filter out of the page ranking...but this still represents an increasing trend.
Monday 10/17. google reports "1,200,000 for "impeach bush". (0.11 seconds)" with one sponsored link from CafePress.
Tuesday 10/18 and our datum du jour is:
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,300,000 for "impeach bush". (0.30 seconds)
I note also, that some junk pages which used to show up in the top 10 have drifted well down below the fold in the page rankings. This, if I understand Google page rank calculations means that more people are linking to the pages that I see first: groups devoted to planning and protesting, outfits selling buttons and bumper stickers. In a word, real people who are real angry.
I don't know what time of day the Google crawl kicks off or when it gets to the "I"'s but I sampled early today. The number please:
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,320,000 for "impeach bush". (0.29 seconds)
The count is down a bit today. I may wind up learning more about google than about bush popularity and malfeasance.
1 - 10 of about 1,290,000
and now, at 8pm EST, we have
1 - 10 of about 1,440,000 for "impeach bush". (0.26 seconds)
The top natural [not sponsored] link is votetoimpeach.org.
Spin THAT, Karl!
Fri 21 oct. One has to pay attention to the date that accompanies the plaintext of the URL at the bottom of the Google entry for a page match. There MUST be more to it than that since the date is 19 oct, meaning the msot popular pages were crawled 2 days ago yet the top 2 have exchanged places. Today impeachbush.tv is at the top and the count is
1,300,000
oops, weekends are tough. I dropped a few data points.
its monday 10/24 and the trend is holding:
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,410,000 for "impeach bush". (0.24 seconds)
26 october: 1,340,000
27 October, Thrusday...not sure how much is noise and how much is signal here but the signal is still clear: the hot water this pus-hearted adminstration has got itself into is begining to boil.
Results 1 - 10 of about 2,130,000 for "impeach bush". (0.24 seconds)
Friday Oct 28.
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,390,000 for "impeach bush". (0.14 seconds)
Votetoimpeach.org has retaken the top spot in the non-sponsored links.
Spin this Karl: Results 1 - 10 of about 1,640,000 for "impeach bush". (0.29 seconds)
Your day to twist slowly in the wind is coming nearer, Karl.
Trick or treat!
((1640000-999500)/(31-10)) = 30500 pages per day added to the web since Oct 10. You can cut the formula and paste it into most desktop calculator utilities when you have new numbers to plug in. The trend would to level off at some point. The question is what action will result and will it correlate with this trend. i.e. how meaningful are these numbers?
november 1: Results 1 - 10 of about 1,660,000 for "impeach bush". (0.22 seconds)
nov 2, same three pages seem to keep trading places in the top 4 spots. Trend is still upward: Results 1 - 10 of about 1,700,000 for "impeach bush". (0.06 seconds)
Nov 3: Results 1 - 10 of about 1,780,000 for "impeach bush". (0.08 seconds)
Nov. 4 and the numbers are off quite a bit. Also, the tenth-ranked page is technorati search "impeach bush" so I would have to assume some not insignificant portion of the count reflects a web artifact. All us web mites are hyperventilating.
Still, Results 1 - 10 of about 1,470,000 for "impeach bush". (0.09 seconds) is not something about which no president should be proud or comfortable.
Nov. 4 and the numbers are off quite a bit. Also, the tenth-ranked page is technorati search "impeach bush" so I would have to assume some not insignificant portion of the count reflects a web artifact. All us web mites are hyperventilating.
Still, Results 1 - 10 of about 1,470,000 for "impeach bush". (0.09 seconds) is something about which no president should be proud or comfortable.
hmmm. this is getting boring. I been slackin. it was 1,3xxx,xxx over the weekend, 1400000 yesterday and today
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,500,000 for "impeach bush". (0.07 seconds)
why such nice round numbers?
nov 11 Results 1 - 10 of about 1,440,000 for "impeach bush". (0.05 seconds)
looks like we have seen the apogee
2005.11.14
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,490,000 for "impeach bush". (0.30 seconds)
2005.11.15 Results 1 - 10 of about 1,500,000 for "impeach bush". (0.47 seconds)
the numbers are not up but the quality of the links is. the first page of hits are now all useful and active websites for organizers or media dedicated to restoring integrity to the executive branch.
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,480,000 for "impeach bush". (0.11 seconds)
testing new lows in bush league popularity. Results 1 - 10 of about 1,610,000 for "impeach bush". (0.26 seconds)
I wonder if this uptick has anything to do with the only big story of the day: the Scanlon guilty plea [which will suck Delay and Rep. Bob Ney and notorious lobbyist Jack Abramoff" a bit deeper into the doodoo of that voodoo the Republicans consider politics as usual.
Or maybe the fight in the congress prompted by Murtha's "redeployment" call is waking up a few more folk?
nov 21 Results 1 - 10 of about 1,650,000 for "impeach bush". (0.47 seconds)
nov 23 Results 1 - 10 of about 1,530,000 for "impeach bush". (0.33 seconds)
nov 25 Results 1 - 10 of about 1,660,000 for "impeach bush". (0.26 seconds)
nov 28: Results 1 - 10 of about 1,610,000 for "impeach bush". (0.07 seconds)
30 nov. Results 1 - 10 of about 2,140,000 for "impeach bush". (0.23 seconds)
whats that bumb all about? Did Bushies withdrawl plan plagiarism wake a few people up?
December 5 Results 1 - 10 of about 2,210,000 for "impeach bush". (0.22 seconds)
dec 12. Results 1 - 10 of about 1,520,000 for "impeach bush". (0.08 seconds)
the numbers are receding but the quality of the pages found is improving. There are now two sponsored links and most of the top 10 are organizations that have formed or merchandizers who are cashing in on bush league unpopularity. the phrase "war crime" is a frequent co-occurance.
dec 14 Results 1 - 10 of about 1,740,000 for "impeach bush". (0.15 seconds)
varies by as much as 200k over the course of the day.
After days of drifting between 1500000 and 2000000, we see on dec 18:
Results 1 - 10 of about 3,190,000 for "impeach bush". (0.11 seconds)
yow. is this noise or signal? Results 1 - 10 of about 1,180,000 for "impeach bush". (0.06 seconds)
Jan 7: Results 1 - 10 of about 1,900,000 for "impeach bush". (0.23 seconds
the numbers had been lower since I last updated this but there is something new : sponsored links. Do you understand this? It means somebody is paying google money to put their link at the top of the results when anybody searches for "impeach bush". If there is money in something, google will find that too, I guess.
Jan 11 Results 1 - 10 of about 2,190,000 for "impeach bush". (0.37 seconds)
Jan 17 Results 1 - 10 of about 1,990,000 for "impeach bush". (0.50 seconds)
afterdowningstreet.org and washingtonmonthly.com are now in the top 10 search hits...liberal blogging can take some credit for that.
I am picking the highs of course.
Results 1 - 10 of about 3,390,000 for "impeach bush". (0.16 seconds)
Feb 1 2005 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,690,000 for "impeach bush". (0.35 seconds)
Sometimes I wonder if these spikes are the result of blogspot.com [which google does crawl regularly] turning on their dogear banners with "impeach bush".
2006.02.09: Results 1 - 10 of about 2,160,000 for "impeach bush". (0.17 seconds)
hang in their bush baby, we'll hang you yet! scooters gone, abramoff flipped, Delay has had his day, your Deutch putsch backfired.
2006.02.10 Results 1 - 10 of about 4,040,000 for "impeach bush". (0.32 seconds)
Yay! a new high.
This blog started last september or october. Its page rank has now moved solidly up into the top 10. it represents a coallition with what looks like over 100 member blogs:
http://impeachbushcoalition.blogspot.com/
2006.02.13 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,660,000 for "impeach bush". (0.36 seconds)
2006.02.21 Results 1 - 10 of about 4,140,000 for "impeach bush". (0.07 seconds)
all the top 10 matches are for .orgs, meetups and so forth to get the conniving used oil salesman and his pupet masters out of the whitehouse before things are wrecked beyond repair [what if he and cheney bomb iran?] The adsense items in the right margin of the google search are all now anti-bush: no more "are you glad bush won?...win an ipod" crap. even adsense can sense blood in the water.
2006.02.24 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,770,000 for "impeach bush". (0.11 seconds)
These sorts of numbers used to come along infrequently and settle quickly back under 2M. maybe this is a genuine trend up? Wish I had the time to write a sampling bot to get a valid time-series.
2006.02.25 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,580,000 for "impeach bush". (0.45 seconds)
2006.03.01 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,670,000 for "impeach bush". (0.11 seconds)
this is getting to be the new level of the bushie barometer. keep up the pressure America. Those 34% approval ratings [and Darth Veeper is at 18%] for the chimperor are reinforced by this rising interest in getting the bum out of office.
2006.03.02 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,690,000 for "impeach bush". (0.14 seconds)
new plateau emerging!
2006.03.04 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,710,000 for "impeach bush". (0.12 seconds
this is the 50th datapoint taken. Maybe i should get off my lazy ass and make a graph or something. The new plateau is quite stable...
2006.03.07 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,370,000 for "impeach bush". (0.13 seconds)
2006.03.15 the ides of march seemed like a good time to check the chimperor's pulse.
Results 1 - 10 of about 3,450,000 for "impeach bush". (0.51 seconds)
2006.03.16 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,480,000 for "impeach bush". (0.09 seconds)
this is a rock solid new level...when is the revolution or at least , the impeachment?
Leaders this corrupt are rarely impeached because they preside over governments they control by undemocratic means. Monarchs of the past who have finally pissed off enough of the little people have been more commonly subjected to beheading...really suits Dubya's character. I wonder if he'd run around, chicken style, for a while after the blade came down...or maybe make a few more court appointments.
2006.03.17 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,470,000 for "impeach bush". (0.48 seconds)
2006.03.20 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,250,000 for "impeach bush". (0.53 seconds)
2006.03.24 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,520,000 for "impeach bush". (0.26 seconds)
This jump from yesterday is over half a million page matches. I know this is a noisey data stream but shouldn't the numbers go DOWN the day after [yet another] presidential
...address to the nation?
2006.03.27 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,410,000 for "impeach bush". (0.16 seconds)
The top 10 hits now include a couple of new items, one is a times of London article on how the "chorous" of calls for impeachment is getting louder.
The paid advertising on the sidbar now includes PACs for impeaching bush.
2006.03.28 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,450,000 for "impeach bush". (0.08 seconds
I am tempted to write a bot for the Google API so I can program hourly samplings and get a feel for the rhthym of the readings.
2006.04.02 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,670,000 for "impeach bush". (0.32 seconds)
the number was above 300000 on all the days since the last sample and never lower than 3200000
2006.04.04 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,470,000 for "impeach bush". (0.16 seconds)
2006.04.08 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,700,000 for "impeach bush". (0.16 seconds)
2006.04.10 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,890,000 for "impeach bush". (0.32 seconds)
2006.01.14 Results 1 - 10 of about 4,300,000 for "impeach bush". (0.37 seconds)
2006.04.18 Results 1 - 10 of about 4,200,000 for "impeach bush". (0.10 seconds)
hit 4,700,000 yesterday but the comment didn't go in. New plateau forming?
2006.04.20 Results 1 - 10 of about 4,700,000 for "impeach bush". (0.39 seconds)
I sampled the number 3 times today, it was 4120000 when I got to work, 4200000 a bit later. this reading taken at 21:30 est
2006.04.26 Results 1 - 10 of about 4,100,000 for "impeach bush". (0.12 seconds)
we were mostly seeing samples just below 4000000 the last couple of days
2006.04.27 Results 1 - 10 of about 4,430,000 for "impeach bush". (0.48 seconds)
2006.04.28 Results 1 - 10 of about 4,460,000 for "impeach bush". (0.12 seconds)
2006.04.31 Results 1 - 10 of about 2,440,000 for "impeach bush". (0.13 seconds)
does this mean they just restarted the crawl?
2006.05.03 Results 1 - 10 of about 4,580,000 for "impeach bush". (0.10 seconds)
it was in mid 3 million range when I checked yesterday...the noise in this sample is probably my timing vs the google crawl cycle.
2006.05.04 Results 1 - 10 of about 5,520,000 for "impeach bush". (0.13 seconds)
Google is a most impartial sort of guage for the temper of the nation. I could see why the administration would encourage the efforts of the telco's to squelch the free flow of discontentment.
new high.
2006.05.05 Results 1 - 10 of about 5,330,000 for "impeach bush". (0.43 seconds)
2006.05.12 Results 1 - 10 of about 4,250,000 for "impeach bush". (0.51 seconds)
2006.05.24 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,550,000 for "impeach bush". (0.67 seconds)
and that is the highest I have seen it in the 3 days since I got back from vacation. Whatsamatter folks?
2006.05.26 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,670,000 for "impeach bush". (0.51 seconds)
2006.05.30
2006,05.31 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,450,000 for "impeach bush". (0.27 seconds)
2006.06.05 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,660,000 for "impeach bush". (0.08 seconds)
I don't think it has varied 100k [i have been checking but not recording] in all the time since the last datum.
2006.06.06 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,890,000 for "impeach bush". (0.45 seconds)
2006.06.15 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,640,000 for "impeach bush". (0.62 seconds)
It has bumped along in the very low 3000000 range, even got down to 2800000 a day ago. This must be the "bounce" from dubya sneaking over to Iraq for 6 hours so secretively we didn't know he was there until he was back. Either he doesn't believe it is as safe there as he has claimed it is or he doesn't trust the people he went over there to tell them how much he trusted them. Who is fooled by this?
2006.07.5 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,670,000 for "impeach bush". (0.34 seconds)
2006.07.10 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,650,000 for "impeach bush". (0.32 seconds)
the buzz seems to be waning: the number has been below 3,000,000 a lot lately.
2006.07.13 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,740,000 for "impeach bush". (0.50 seconds)
2006.07.17 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,680,000 for "impeach bush". (0.16 seconds)
2006.07.19 Results 1 - 10 of about 4,060,000 for "impeach bush". (0.69 seconds)
Thats mor like it. the contents of the top-10 hits page have changed a bit. the ImpeachBushCoallition, of which Executioners Thong is a member, is now at the # 4 spot.
2006.08.01 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,120,000 for "impeach bush". (0.76 seconds)
2006.08.09 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,000,000 for "impeach bush". (0.35 seconds)
A nice round number.
2006.08.14 Results 1 - 10 of about 6,330,000 for "impeach bush". (0.29 seconds)
wtf? it was in the mid 2,000,000 range a few days ago
2006.08.18 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,560,000 for "impeach bush". (0.16 seconds)
2006.09.01 Results 1 - 10 of about 3,000,000 for "impeach bush". (0.52 seconds)
Yeah, right. I think they are just guessing.
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