{"id":11596,"date":"2010-05-27T17:13:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T16:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/follow-eurovision-2010-with-google\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:13:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:13:32","slug":"follow-eurovision-2010-with-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/follow-eurovision-2010-with-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow Eurovision 2010 with Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a goodwill gesture for forcing my girlfriend to watch every World Cup match coming this summer, I&#8217;ve agreed to let her turn on the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurovision.tv\/page\/home\">Eurovision Song Contest<\/a><\/strong> on Saturday. I&#8217;m not normally one for monster rockers or dancing turkeys but I thought I&#8217;d at least try to get into the swing of the contest this year.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just discovered <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/landing\/eurovision\/index.html\">Google&#8217;s Eurovision Predictor<\/a><\/strong> gadget and it&#8217;s really helping my preparations for the world&#8217;s campest contest. The tool provides a real time forecast of who is going to win the tournament based on searches for all the different artists on Google. You can <strong>view graphs of the search evolution<\/strong>, to chart the acts&#8217; popularity over time. Best of all, the Eurovision Predictor includes <strong>YouTube videos<\/strong> so you can familiarize yourself with all the songs ready to belt them out loud on Saturday night. Um, not that I&#8217;ll actually be doing that, you understand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/05\/eurovish1.png\" alt=\"Eurovision\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last year, Google was spot on when its gadget predicted that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icenews.is\/index.php\/2009\/05\/09\/eurovision-norway-and-turkey-neck-to-neck-according-to-google\/\">Norway would scoop the title<\/a>. So, according to this year&#8217;s forecasts, it should be Germany&#8217;s <strong>Lena<\/strong> who claims Eurovision glory. Maybe we&#8217;ll even find out where she picked up that ridiculous English accent.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8QSgNM9yNjo[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a goodwill gesture for forcing my girlfriend to watch every World Cup match coming this summer, I&#8217;ve agreed to let her turn on the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday. I&#8217;m not normally one for monster rockers or dancing turkeys but I thought I&#8217;d at least try to get into the swing of the contest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/follow-eurovision-2010-with-google\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Follow Eurovision 2010 with Google&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2340],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-11596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334937,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11596\/revisions\/334937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11596"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=11596"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=11596"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=11596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}