With the 2010 election campaigns now in full swing, we’ve discovered a few online quirks to raise a smile. If you Google the Tories’ or Labour’s election campaign slogans (‘Vote for change’ and ‘A future fair for all’ respectively) you’ll find these websites:
and…
Surprisingly, neither party seems to have bought Google adwords for their campaign slogans. Maybe soundbite politics hasn’t made it onto the web yet.
Unsurprisingly, no one has done anything with the Liberal Democrat slogan of ‘Change that works for you. Building a fairer Britain’. This lack of online attention seems to be a common theme for the Lib Dems. Using the very unscientific measure of ‘Google suggests’ (the real time tool that suggests other popular searches in the search bar, based on what people most frequently type in) we entered ‘Is Nick Clegg’ and were presented with this lone suggestion:
Maybe things will change following the recent TV debate, but it seems that, right now, people are most interested in Clegg’s relationship status.
On the flipside, when we Googled ‘Is Gordon Brown’, we got these enlightening suggestions:
And for David Cameron:
Good to know that people are asking the questions that matter.
N.b. Click on the Conservative slogan www.voteforchange.org.uk and see what you get…