Rate & Predict American Idol

Here’s another way to predict the American Idol winner: see which contestant people a) search and b) post Facebook links/blog comment/Twitter tweet about.

The link mentions a book by Bill Tancer called “Click”, which basically studies search traffic to determine trends in various industries.  This is yet another really interesting application of Internet data to help understand what’s going on in the world.  In this case, it’s a frivolous thing like predicting the winner of a so-called karaoke contest (says Jimmy Kimmel).

Basically, they’ve anointed Adam Lambert the runaway winner.  I can’t really argue.

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