Google to cover the NZ elections

by nick on August 18, 2008

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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Andrey August 18, 2008 at 8:27 pm

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.

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lyndon August 19, 2008 at 12:55 pm

Andrey @ 8:27pm: the most ingenious comment spam I’ve ever seen.

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Nick August 25, 2008 at 1:17 pm

It’s changed! http://www.google.co.nz/election2008/ now goes to the US elections coverage.

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Jen Ferguson October 9, 2008 at 10:19 am

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.
:)

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Matt Gagnon October 15, 2008 at 4:29 am

Google covers everything, there is no reason why they wouldn’t cover the NZ election, it is what they do.

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