the buzz log

Bags have been packed, linens laundered, papers filed (maybe shredded), and outgoing voicemail messages and security codes likely changed.

With the handover (AKA Inauguration Day) at hand, people have been checking on the Web for all sorts of Buzz on President-elect Barack Obama, including lesser concerns from the Spider-Man comic book homage and what will the First Pet be, to how his mother-in-law will adjust to her new digs and will he really have to be separated from his Blackberry.

Pulling in less Web attention is the outgoing commander-in-chief, but nevertheless people are giving George W. Bush some due. His family members have also been receiving some search love, including wife Laura, sister Dorothy (aka Doro) Bush Koch, brother Jeb, daughter Jenna, first cousin Billy (an Access Hollywood host), as well as dad (and No. 41) George H.W. Bush, whose recent aircraft carrier honor also spurred a Web look-see.

With the news media and historians poring over legacies and making prognostications, below is the most recent Search snapshot of what the world has pondered about two men, about to trade positions at the highest office in the land.

Top 10 "Obama" and "Bush" Searches on Yahoo!, Past 7 Days

For the incoming, the primary concerns focus upon plans for the economy, who’s on the team to lead America, and what's on the January 20 agenda. For the outgoing, searches range from the significant ("Bush Challenges Hundreds" refers to a 2006 Boston Globe story of the president's "quiet" claim "to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office"), to the trivial ("Bush China" investigates not his foreign policies, but his designer dishes) to the absurd (with not just one, but two games, Hot Dog Bush and Bush Shoe Game).

Speaking of shoes, one memento of his time in office dropped off in popularity in the last few days: "Bye Bye Bush Shoes," formerly known as as Model 271 worn by irate Iraqi journalists and an economic booster, at least for its Middle East maker.