A chart on the Google Blog shows a sharp drop in Google searches during the Obama inaugural speech. The post gives an array of facts about Obama-related searches. It then introduces the chart with the dip at the bottom of the piece with this:
Finally, this graph demonstrates one other interesting search pattern that we saw: the overall query volume of Google searches dropped in the U.S. from the time President Obama took the oath of office until the end of his inaugural speech, demonstrating that all eyes were on today’s festivities.
