Political Insights classifies web search queries according to political leaning and provides insights into partisan views on diverse topics. The "leaning" of a query is determined by the type of web search results clicked in response to this query. If a query elicits mostly clicks on left leaning political blogs it will be classified as left leaning; similarly for right leaning and center political blogs.

The starting page shows a list of queries with a strong political bias. Browsing that list using the "Next" button will provide you with a basic overview of topics with strong partisan views. If you want to dive deeper into queries on a particular topic use the search box on top. To give you some ideas, some interesting queries to try are shown below the search box.

The demo uses a list of 155 high traffic political blogs classified by political leaning and used in a recent scientific publication. The analyzed queries cover a time period of nine months, May 2010 - January 2011, surrounding the U.S. midterm elections of 2010.

Try it yourself and discover right leaning queries about "Obama" or left leaning queries about "Tea Party" - and much more.

Political Insights was created by the
Search Technologies group, Barcelona, Spain.