What folks are looking for online and how they're looking for it is a subject of endless interest. To us, at least. For instance, we at KQED know that people are searching for information on the new federal health-care law (the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare). We know because there's been a consistently high demand for our guide on how the new law works in California, Obamacare Explained. It's not really a surprise that we're just seeing a slice of what's going on everywhere.
Here are lists from Yahoo! and Google on Obamacare searches this week:
From Yahoo!
- [what is obamacare]
- [what are the obamacare facts]
- [what is obamacare exactly]
- [how to sign up for obamacare]
- [how much will obamacare cost me]
- [is congress exempt from obamacare]
- [who is exempt from obamacare]
- [where to sign up for obamacare]
- [why is obamacare bad]
- [how to enroll in obamacare]
- [how does obamacare work]
- [what does obamacare mean]
- [when does obamacare take effect]
- [who has to sign up for obamacare]
- [how will obamacare effect medicare]
From Google, a slightly different list: trending searches in the Bay Area this week. This makes it clear that there's something else on people's minds this week besides health care:
- government shutdown
- obama care california
- covered california
- yosemite national park
- government shutdown 1995
- obama care chip
- why government shutdown
- affordable care act
- what is obamacare
- furlough
And one last list: From Yahoo!, a list of states searching the most for "Obamacare" this week: