Google, best known for being the largest online search engine in the world, has launched a special Eurovision Song Contest page to project the outcome of the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest.
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Based on Google search data, the projection tool shows how popular each participant is in each participating country and then calculates the scores they would get if the voting took place today. However, Google rightly points out that 50 percent of the result on the Final night will be determined by a professional jury; "So we can't predict what their vote will be." The forecast model still misses data from 5 of the 39 participating countries.
Note: Yahoo also has a prediction tool, Predictalot, that uses a different concept (not just search queries) to make the predictions. Finally, Yahoo's software works only for sports. For more info and links visit this VentureBeat article.
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