Using Google Trends hot searches, I stumbled upon Dancing with the Stars. Google Trends has been used to predict the outcome of voter-based and performance-based competitions, but will it be accurate in choosing the victor of a voter /performance competition hybrid? Dancing With the Stars 2013 Search Trends As you will see, candidates with a higher Google search volume became POTUS in each of the three presidential elections.

The Google Trends graphs below shows the search volume for keywords related to the top candidates in the 2004, 2008, and 2012 presidential races, leading up to Election Day. presidential elections, where a large number of Americans are searching the Internet for more information on presidential candidates to make a more-informed voting decision. Google Trends has proved to be a useful resource to predict the outcome of U.S. One of the more interesting capabilities of the tool has been its ability to correctly predict the outcome of voter elections. It will be interesting to follow GoogleвЂ™s picks to see how the bracket holds up in the following weeks. On average, 71.87% of the Google Trends picks for the NCAA tournament have been correct. So far, the Google Trends bracket has made 38 correct picks based on volume of team-related searches. Thursday marks the fourth round of the NCAA 2014 playoffs. It will be interesting to see if Google Trends is as accurate in predicting the outcome of sporting events as it is for predicting the outcome of a voter-based competition.

In this section, you can see what college basketball teams Google Trends has predicted to win in each round of the playoffs based on search volume related to a specific team. Google recently added the NCAA March Madness вЂњIn Search of VictoryвЂќ section to Google Trends, where users can create NCAA March Madness Brackets. This post will discuss how Google Trends can be used to predict the outcome of voter-based competition, performance-based competition, and a voter/performance competition hybrid. In some instances, Google Trends has been used to successfully forecast the outcome of voter and performance-based competitions. Google Trends is a useful tool for identifying and understanding search term seasonality, coming up with content topics, comparing search volume of a search term or group of related keywords over time, and on occasion, showing clients how search volume for one of their keywords has changed over time. The Google Trends вЂњexploreвЂќ function creates a visual representation of search volume, over time, for up to five search terms or phrases.

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