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		<title>Google uses search data to predict this year&#8217;s Oscar winners</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina Farr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>With the Oscar's around the corner, Google has made its own predictions of the winners on a new destination&#160;website.</p>
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<p><a href="http://google.com" target="_blank">Google</a>&#8216;s <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/02/13/the-internship-movie-trailer/">recent movie turn in <em>The Internship</em></a> must have put employees in a Hollywood state of mind.</p>
<p>With the Oscar&#8217;s around the corner &#8212; the 85th Academy Awards will air on Sunday Feb. 24 &#8212; Google <a href="http://www.google.com/insidesearch/landing/oscars.html" target="_blank">has made its own predictions</a> of the winners on a new destination website.</p>
<p>According to <a href="http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/02/20/just-in-time-for-the-oscars-google-unveils-its-academy-awards-site-and-a-2012-year-in-film-movie/" target="_blank"><em>TheNextWeb</em></a>, Google analysed search volume based on how many queries were run two weeks prior to the film being released, and up to three months after. It did not include sentiment &#8212; so even if you searched &#8220;Les Miserables sucks,&#8221; it wouldn&#8217;t affect the rankings.</p>
<p>On the new site, Google shows off all its consumer products, including its Knowledge Graph, Google Maps, YouTube, and even Google+ Hangouts.</p>
<p>Scroll the drop-down list to view the projected winners in the Best Director, Best Actor / Actress, Best Supporting Actor / Actress, and Best Picture categories.</p>
<p><a href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/02/20/google-uses-search-data-to-predict-this-years-oscar-winners/screen-shot-2013-02-20-at-2-09-16-pm/" rel="attachment wp-att-625511"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-625511" alt="Screen Shot 2013-02-20 at 2.09.16 PM" src="http://venturebeat.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/screen-shot-2013-02-20-at-2-09-16-pm.png?w=280&#038;h=236" width="280" height="236" /></a>Just for fun, Google also revealed the most-searched red carpet looks from 2012: no surprise, Angelina Jolie&#8217;s #planked #leg #pose made the top list (and earned its own meme).</p>
<p>Google hangout fans are encouraged to stream a fake acceptance speech, and there is even an interactive map to help you find out where Oscar-nominated films will be playing near you.</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time that the search behemoth has released a data-filled custom website to coincide with a major event: Google unveiled its &#8220;<a href="http://www.google.org/flutrends/us/#US" target="_blank">flu trends</a>&#8221; site in the height of the sniffly season, and in the run-up to the Presidential election, it released <a href="http://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/live" target="_blank">a political channel</a> with news and video highlights.</p>
<p><em>Do you agree or disagree with Google&#8217;s predictions predictions? </em><br />
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