Who's Winning Iran's Google War?

Foreign Policy by Scott E. Hartley | Jun. 15, 2009 (News Analysis)

Google Trends, stocked with data from 64 million Internet users in the Middle East -- half of whom live in Iran -- might be able to help us learn what potential Iranian voters are thinking right now. Looking at the Web tells us much about the candidates' domestic strongholds and their international support. Online behavior, from Twitter to search engines, offers clues about where supporters are congregated.

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Subjects: World, U.S., Business, Sci/Tech, Media
Topics: Middle East, Iran, Foreign Policy, Internet, Google, New Media, Social Networks
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 by Fabrice Florin - Jun. 15, 2009

Interesting article about how the Iranian elections can be seen through the prism of Google Trends and an analysis of the Persian blogosphere. Though only a third of Iranian citizens are online, we can learn a lot from web traffic stats from this country.

I'm fascinated by Berkman Center's graphic visualization of Iranian blog, grouped into clusters like Reformist, Conservative, Religious and Secular.

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