Google Trends Predicts Winner of American Idol
by Dave Bascom, May 20, 2008
A few months back, we analyzed Google Trends data to see which presidential candidate was most likely to win the election. The Democratic nomination process has drawn out longer than we ever anticipated, but it looks like Obama will come out on top in that one, and he stands a great chance … Read more
Google Predicts Obama for President
by Nelson James, February 16, 2008
Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States, according to Google Trends. Based on our previous analysis of Google Trends leading up to Super Tuesday, we predicted Obama and McCain would come out on top after Super Tuesday. As it ended up, Google Trends was only about 70% correct … Read more


