Eurovision Predictor
The folks at Google have made yet another step towards world domination. Just a bit of math analysis and endless amounts of search data allow the folks from Mountain View, CA, to predict the future. The result is called Eurovision 2010 Forecast and is essentially what Google thinks the standings chart of the contest will look like.
Here’s how it looks like now:
The thing changes daily.
On May 27, we’ll know the answer to two very important questions. First, who wins Eurovision 2010 (I can’t help supporting Alyosha from Ukraine, and put my bets on the girl from Georgia, if you wanted to know). And second, just how close Google came to modeling complex mass behavior and world domination, or whatever.
What is Lena from Germany doing in the top three, anyway?
No idea, really. Personally I don’t find her all that good either.