{"id":1211,"date":"2008-12-14T10:25:54","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T15:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2016-09-20T03:53:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T07:53:39","slug":"sunday-fun-following-the-madoff-with-google-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/14\/sunday-fun-following-the-madoff-with-google-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Fun: Following the Madoff $ with Google Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has got to be one of the worst stories to hit Wall Street. An absolute travesty.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that there was a great deal of concentration of Madoff (made-off?) investors in the Northeast and Southeast regions.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the latest <a href=\"In compiling the 2008 Year-End Zeitgeist, our search team studied the aggregation of billions of search queries people typed in to the Google search box. Except where noted, all of these search terms are most popular for 2008. All of the search queries we studied are anonymous \u201d\u201d no personal information was used. \" target=\"_blank\">Google Trends<\/a> search results for Madoff.<\/p>\n<p>(Links: <a href=\"http:\/\/search.bloomberg.com\/search?q=Bernard+Madoff%2C&amp;site=wnews&amp;client=wnews&amp;proxystylesheet=wnews&amp;output=xml_no_dtd&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;filter=p&amp;getfields=wnnis&amp;sort=date:D:S:d1\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg News<\/a>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/page\/bernard-madoff.html\" target=\"_blank\">WSJ Madoff \u00a0 &#8211; Special Section<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>Interesting that Switzerland is the TOP country by search. Is this an indication of the amount of money that was involved by the search size?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/madoff_google.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1214 aligncenter\" title=\"madoff_google\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/madoff_google.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/picture-9-1.png\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/picture-8-1.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1213 aligncenter\" title=\"picture-8\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/picture-8-1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1212 aligncenter\" title=\"picture-9\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/picture-9-1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ino.com\/info\/183\/CD3465\/&amp;dp=0&amp;l=0&amp;campaignid=9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/ino.directtrack.com\/42\/3465\/183\/\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Free Trading Videos\" width=\"550\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has got to be one of the worst stories to hit Wall Street. An absolute travesty. It appears that there was a great deal of concentration of Madoff (made-off?) investors in the Northeast and Southeast regions. Below is the latest Google Trends search results for Madoff. (Links: Bloomberg News, WSJ Madoff \u00a0 &#8211; Special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[266],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-markets","tag-sunday-fun","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}