I don’t think you can fake out Google Trends folks, this is the real poll in an online world.

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For those who don’t know, this file is used to limit what parts of a website get indexed by search engines. Looks like our protectors in the White House don’t want us Googling them.

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Wow, I just read an article talking about how according to Clickz.com Ron Paul is way ahead in web traffic, compared to all the other candidates, Republican and Democrat alike.

Then, me being the SEO/Googe guy I am, I decided to check out Google Trends to see how things looked on the search side of things. I put Ron Paul in with Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, and Rudy Giuliani, and here’s what I got:

July 2007 (for some reason the graph only shows the first half of July)

June 2007

May 2007

Now, I’m no expert at analyzing statistics, but just by looking at this I think I’ve identified the most important general conclusion you can make from these numbers:

Ron Paul is leading by an ever increasing margin in search volume, even though is dead last in new reference volume.

Even though the media is ignoring Ron Paul, he is leading all the front runners in search volume by a growing margin.

Here’s a look at 2007:

We’re definitely gaining ground, but we’re far from winning. Everyone, keep up the good work on spreading Ron Paul’s message of Freedom and Liberty, and with our hard work, we can change things for the better!!

I saw this in an article here:

Where Are You Now?

One of the more interesting aspects, other than a nationwide broadband WiMax service in the first place, is Sprint and Google actively working on location-based services that can track exactly where the device is.

“Assuming that a customer opts-in in a transparent way, we can do location in a couple of different ways. The first is, traditional advertisers would be very interested to know where people are. If they are close to restaurants or bars or other places of interest, we think advertising Email Marketing Software - Free Demo could become very meaningful to customers,” Cannistra said.

“A second way, on an opt-in basis, would be to locate where people on your contact list are. Wherever you are, say on a Friday night, you could see … on a map on your device, where your friends are,” he explained.

This would be cool, as long as it’s opt-in, and the Feds don’t have an API feed from it, but unless we get Ron Paul as President that probably won’t be the case.