The Inauguration Day attracted a lot of interest from United States users, but also from users all over the world, and the top Google searches for the special event best reflect that. Google revealed that the top search queries included live inauguration coverage, inauguration day 2009 streaming or listen to inauguration live.

 

The inauguration-related queries originated from all over the world, from Latin America to Europe, Asia, the Middle East and even Australia. According to Google, queries such as toma de posesion the Barack Obama en vivo or investiture, but also inauguration timetable, were very popular.

 

In addition to searching for the man of the day – Barack Obama – users were also interested in the stars attending the event, such as Aretha Franklin, Yo Yo Ma, but also Reverend Dr. Joseph E. Lowery, who gave the benediction, and Senator Dianne Feinstein, who presided over the ceremony, or Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., who swore in the President.

 

Google software engineer Jeffrey Oldham and quantitative marketing manager Fred Leach, who posted the results on Google’s blog, said the number of people using the Internet for such events has increased during the past nine years, starting with Bush’s inaugural address in 2001.

 

To form a better picture of how important this event has really become, you should know that this inauguration, queries such as YouTube live inauguration, live blogging inauguration, inaugural podcast, and Obama inaugural speech mp3 represented one third of the all inauguration-related queries.

 

The interest in Obama’s inauguration did not come as a surprise, if we take into consideration the fact that the whole world was just as interested in the debates and the political campaign prior to his election.