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(Credit: Team Coco/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)The lovely thing about Google is its certainty.
At least, I think I'm sure about that.
Google's algorithms exist to take the weight from our minds and direct us to where we should be going and what we should be doing. It's a wonderful relief.
Recently, Google declared it could out-Kreskin the critics and the Hollywood marketing men, by predicting, with 94 percent accuracy, which movies would succeed.
It was easy, Google huffed haughtily. All it had to do was look at search patterns.
Conan O'Brien and his team are a touch skeptical of this claim. So they created what they regard as a truer picture of Google's crystal movie ball.
"Are any stars trekked, warred, or danced with?" says a genial quasi-Googlie, attempting to explain some of the criteria the company's algorithm uses.
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