While neck and neck with Romney at Iowa, Santorum has far lead on Google

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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won Tuesday’s Iowa caucuses by a hair, with final tallies being reported in the early hours of Wednesday morning, but Google users across Iowa and the U.S. were more interested in reading about former Sen. Rick Santorum and Rep. Ron Paul.

Santorum, who has surged from behind in media and Internet interest over the past week, was listed on Tuesday as a “Hot Trend” — an indicator Google uses to show what readers in the U.S. are most interested in searching for throughout the day. Internet users in Iowa and the U.S. showed little search interest in Romney, who has enjoyed a continued media spotlight but was nowhere to be found on that list.

Santorum, who for the first time surpassed Romney on December 29, 2011 in Google user search interest, again overtook the former governor on New Years Day, gaining a substantial lead in search popularity on Jan. 2. Paul, who dominated the GOP field in Internet interest for the month of December, continued his reign over the other two contenders in overall search interest on Google.

While, on a relative scale of 100, Santorum had a 45-point national lead over Romney among national Google users, the divide between the contenders was much closer for Iowa searches, with Santorum only having a 15-point lead over Romney.



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This...is...AWESOME.

[Emelina]

1. Santorum

Well with John Stewart making his name seem in some way disgusting, and then telling people not to look it up, it is no wonder people are checking out Google. Not sure Santorum likes what his name has morphed into though.