Auto-complete for “Rick Perry is” on the three big search sites on 8/29/2011.
| Yahoo | Bing | |
| gay | an idiot | an idiot |
| an idiot | crazy | good |
| a rino | a scumbag | a crook |
| evil | not a conservative | bad |
| not a conservative | a republican | a scumbag |
| evil | running for president | |
| awesome | right about education | |
| hot | ||
| horrible | ||
| a joke |
Cheers.
I’m not sure how we might interpret this, and I’m also not sure why we would leave Barack Obama out of this analysis. Granted, he’ll definitely be the Democrats’ choice, but his re-election is not as certain. From Sep-03-2011:
Google:
your new bicycle
an idiot
a cactus
the antichrist
a muslim
Yahoo!:
a muslim
an idiot
a terrorist
evil
the devil
a liar
a socialist
Bing:
your new bicycle
the antichrist
a muslim
an idiot
a one-term president
a liar
Osama Bin Laden
I left Obama out because I was only looking at the Republican presidential nominees and how they compared to each other.
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