What Would Google Decide?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday November 8, 2006 @08:34AM 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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Voting in the e-age by east+coast · 2006-11-08 08:37 · 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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No surprise... by parvenu74 · 2006-11-08 08:38 · 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?