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What Would Google Decide?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the where-is-my-wwgd-armband dept.

Gary Stock, the guy who invented the Googlewhack, tried a bit of Google election predicting last night. Using a methodology that is entirely indefensible, and which he does not try to defend, Stock asked Google to call the results on Michigan's five referendum questions. The result: Google's answers to two questions were spot-on, two questions were answered correctly but underrepresented the 'yes' vote, and one question was reversed. An 80% accuracy rate has got to beat any number of the pollsters and pundits who have been shouting at us since last August, no?

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  1. Voting in the e-age by east+coast · · Score: 5, Funny

    The electronic voting machine I used just yesterday had a "I feel lucky" button on it... Google's influence is far and wide.

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    Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
  2. No surprise... by parvenu74 · · Score: 4, Funny

    If Google can find password files and the source code to Diebold's voting machines, they can surely find the pre-determined results to yesterday's vote.

    What -- you thought the election was fair and square and only determined when the ballots were counted last night?

  3. Re:Brilliant idea by kfg · · Score: 2, Funny

    . . .the older Luddites die. . .

    Damn kid Luddites these days. Get off my lawnmower!

    KFG

  4. Re:Brilliant idea by kfg · · Score: 2, Funny

    I fully understood what you were talking about.

    And boy, are you going to be in for a rude awakening when the new longevity therapies come out. I got lucky, my Father-in-law is already dead. He was computer technology savvy, but caught a bad case of Luddite technology.

    Fireplace poker upside the head. Sometimes the old ways are very effective.

    KFG