Can Search Usage Predict Election Outcomes?
Date : 2007 12 17 Category : Yahoo Yahoo! Search BlogThat may be a bit of a stretch, but there's no doubt that online search behavior can be an insightful window in the minds of consumers and voters. For this reason, our friends at Yahoo! News included Yahoo! Buzz data (which is based on search usage) in their new Political Dashboard. In addition to Buzz data, the dashboard includes traditional opinion poll data, campaign fundraising tallies and even predictions market data based on a sort of stock market for politicians.
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Graham Mudd
Yahoo! Search
