Google’s Eurovision Prediction: Update #2

With the semi-finals now complete, Google’s Eurovision prediction tool, which forecasts the winner based on Internet searches, has seen some big changes. Germany’s Lena remains atop the leader board, but Greece’s Giorgos Alkaios and Friends and Serbia’s Milan Stankovi have surged into the top 6, displacing Azerbaijan’s Safura and Georgia’s Sofia Nizharadze. There are some obvious flaws with Google’s prediction tool. It still includes countries that were eliminated during the semi-finals (Estonia’s Malcolm Lincoln sits in fourth position still!). But it does serve as a useful indicator of how the public might vote: last year it correctly predicted that Norway’s Alexander Ryback would storm to victory.

1			Lena	345
2			Giorgos Alkaios & Friends	176
3			Milan Stankovi??	154
4			Malcolm Lincoln	127
5			Sofia Nizharadze	122
6			Peter Nalitch & Friends	112
7			Eva Rivas	93
8			Jessy Matador	90
9			Safura	88
10			Tom Dice	77
11			Hera Björk	76
12			Marcin Mrozi??ski	68
13			Harel Skaat	58
14			Anna Bergendahl	56
15			Juliana Pasha	49
16			Paula Seling & Ovi	49
17			Sunstroke Project & Olia Tira	40
18			maNga	34
19			3+2	32
20			Gjoko Taneski	26
21			Josh	25
22			Thea Garrett	25
23			Didrik Solli-Tangen	24
24			Aisha	23
25			Daniel Diges	23
26			Filipa Azevedo	21
27			Kristina Pelakova	15
28			Vukašin Braji??	14
29			Niamh Kavanagh	12
30			Alyosha	11
31			Jon Lilygreen & The Islanders	9
32			Feminnem	8
33			Sieneke	3
34			Michael von der Heide	1
35			Kuunkuiskaajat	1
36			Chanée & N’evergreen	1
37			InCulto	0
38			Miro	0
39			Ansambel Žlindra & Kalamari	0

***POLL: TURKEY, SPAIN OR ICELAND TO WIN EUROVISION***