America tuned into watch Sarah Palin debate Joe Biden… and now they are turning to Google to ask, “who won the vp debate?” According to Google Hot Trends – t’s the #1 search query on Google. The results, however, are far from satisfying and prove just how difficult indexing – and more importantly, ranking – fresh content from the blogoshpere and media is.

Proof: If you are asking who won the debate, the best results likely were published after the debate. Right? Well here’s a breakdown of the seven suggested sources:

- two articles published at 11am pst… long before the debate occurred
- two articles from big media companies (Forbes and iReport) that are asking for user commentary
- one AdSense affiliate reposting the top search queries
- two timely critiques of the actual debate: one from WSJ and one from RightPundits

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