That’s my prediction anyway. Last year Google covered the Australian elections and I’m wondering whether they will cover the NZ elections in the same way.
The Australian elections was covered at http://www.google.com.au/election2007/
So I figure that ours would therefore be at http://www.google.co.nz/election2008/ … interestingly, if you click on that link you don’t get any confirmation that there will be coverage except that it changes to http://www.google.com/2008election/ – which doesn’t happen if you go to http://www.google.co.nz/blah2008
I rest my case.
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New Zealand general elections occur when the Prime Minister requests a dissolution of Parliament and therefore a general election. Theoretically, this can happen at any time, although a convention exists whereby Prime Ministers do not call elections unless they have no reasonable alternative.
Andrey @ 8:27pm: the most ingenious comment spam I’ve ever seen.
It’s changed! http://www.google.co.nz/election2008/ now goes to the US elections coverage.
Actually… http://www.google.co.nz/election2008 hosts Google’s New Zealand election gadget for iGoogle:
The gadget helps you follow the 2008 election with the latest news, videos, blog posts, and official policies and newsfeeds, and can be accessed through a web browser or internet-enabled mobile phone.
It also features a link to the ONE News YouTube Election Debate taking place on Tuesday, October 14 – http://www.youtube.co.nz/debate.
Google covers everything, there is no reason why they wouldn’t cover the NZ election, it is what they do.