Edge Davao 8 Issue 203

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VOL. 8 ISSUE 203 • FRIDAY-SATURDAY, JANUARY 8 - 9, 2016

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RED ALERT. The electric transmission line facilities of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) tower over a cornfield in Maramag, Bukidnon. NGCP placed Mindanao on red alert as a possible grid collapse is seen and will affect Davao City and General Santos City. Lean Daval Jr.

IT’S DUTERTE, SAYS GOOGLE In 2010, Google picked PNoy, now it’s predicting Rody for 2016 By CHARLES RAYMOND A. MAXEY

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HE 16th President of the Republic of the Philippines is none other than Davao City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte, according to Google. Google made the prediction after collating the statistics that showed Duterte leading the race in its search queries among the presidential aspirants in the May 9 elections. “If this is any indication, Duterte will be doing a good job in the coming 2016 presidential election,” Google said. Duterte is up against Vice

President Jejomar Binay, administration candidate Mar Roxas, Sen. Grace Poe and Sen. Miriam Santiago in a five-cornered fight. “This is not the first try to find a correlation of Google search trends to potential election outcomes. In 2010 national elections, Sen. Benigno Aquino,” Google said. Google supported and explained its findings with demographics based on the queries of Filipino voters from June to December of 2015. “Even on the average per-

centage of queries, Rodrigo Duterte (26 percent) leads the race from June to December 2015. Behind him are Jejomar Binay (12 percent), Grace Poe (8 percent), Mar Roxas (5 percent), and Miriam Santiago (5 percent),” Google said. “He appears to be the top choice among Googlers from November 9 to December 5: he holds a large lead among other candidates who searched about each one of them. He got 100 points. Behind him were Grace Poe (27 points), Jejomar Binay (10

points), Mar Roxas (8 points), and Miriam Santiago (8 points),” it the search engine added. The Google prediction elated the camp of Duterte. “This is a clear confirmation that Rody is the overwhelming choice of the Filipino people with more than 42 million now using the internet. This, likewise affirm that followers of Duterte are dominant in social media,” said Peter T. Laviña, head of Duterte’s media group in the campaign team.

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