14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft’s Bing has become really famous for correctly predicting the winners of several competitions, so the company has once again taken to its prediction engine to find out who’s going to take the leading spot at this Saturday’s 2015 Eurovision Song Contest.
According to a company blog post, Italy has 18 percent chances to win the contest, followed by Sweden, Australia, Russia, and Albania.
Here are the predicted rankings, as provided by Microsoft:
Italy - 18% Sweden - 16.1% Australia - 13.3% Russia - 11.4% Albania - 11.2%
Redmond says that the Bing prediction engine will continue to monitor online trends and provide new estimates regularly, and “fans have the opportunity to influence the results by voting for your favorite act via the official Eurovision Song Contest application.”
In case you’re wondering how accurate Bing predictions actually are, it’s worth knowing that Microsoft’s service correctly predicted no less than 16 out of 19 winners of this year’s Oscars, while also guessing the result of 15 out of 16 knockout games at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
Needless to say, Microsoft expects these accurate predictions to continue with the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest, but we’ll find out on Saturday night, when the show kicks off in Vienna, Austria. The contest starts at 9 PM CET (12 AM PT) on May 23.