Manny Villar leads Google Searches!
I really don't want to talk about politics as much as possible but when technology is involved, it's a different story. Most people don't know this Google service. It's called Google Trends. It graphs the number of search queries of a particular set of keywords in a given amount of time. I used the following keywords taken from the top 5 Presidential candidates taken from the PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE FOR THE 2010 ELECTIONS, PHILIPPINES survey in the NICKNAME SURNAME format. Of course, searching for 'villar' only or 'aquino' only will add irrelevant results as 'villar' is a Spanish term used across the globe and there are many 'aquino': kris, cory, and ninoy.
- noynoy aquino
- manny villar
- erap estrada
- gibo teodoro
- eddie villanueva
The data is taken from the last 12 months of Google searches in the Philippines for the keywords above. The search query spiked at the time where Villar (as you all know) released his 'Si Villar ang tunay na mahirap' jingle. (more on this later) Aquino still dominates the News on average. (see the lower section of the image) Estrada and Villanueva does not have enough search volume for ranking for the Philippines for the past 12 months. Going internationally we can see that Villar still leads and the other pick up. But Estrada still lags behind search volume for the past 12 months. 
Although we can see a little rise in Estrada's query at the beginning of the month, it was not enough for ranking. We can also see that Teodoro did not take enough traffic despite Ondoy (September). It was just mid-November that he gained traffic. It is when Arroyo endorses Teodorodo's presidential bid. Looking back in time and seeing the bigger picture. International, all year search. 
We can see a huge spike on Estrada's search on 2007. That is actually when Estrada was on trial. Villar also spikes from time to time starting 2008 (Manny Villar Cup) [some sort of tournament], early 2009 ("early" presidential campaign), then the rest is history (C5 extension). On the Philippines we can also see the same. 
Aquino didn't racked enough traffic for himself on Google maybe because there isn't too much controversy about him.. Although he racks up news article than search queries.. One thing's for sure. Villar's popularity in Google (in my opinion) is because of his achievements, not because of his scandals.. but because people makes fun of him and his gimmicks. 
Chipmunks version of Villar's jingle. And even a Villar jingle inspired song that talks about the use of a 3rd party program in Ragnarok. A comment on the chipmunks version said "sana po pag po kayo nanalo sana po dahan dahan lng po sa pag bawi sa laki ng gastos nyo sa commercial nyo salamat po..sana huag? lahat ubusin yun pera ng mahal kong bayan." (if you win, I hope you would take the huge amount that you spent for your commercials slowly.. i hope you don't take all of the country's riches.) 
I do hope this 2010 elections (and succeeding elections) turn out to be well. I really hate the Philippines especially when election season comes.. Makes me want to leave the country every 6 years... T_T If you want to see the graphs for your self click the following links. - International trend for all years
- International trend for the last 12 months
- Philippine trend for all years
- Philippne trend for the last 12 months
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