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Microsoft’s Bing prediction engine has been mostly flawless until now, as it correctly “guessed” the outcome of several events, sports games and movie awards, so it wasn’t so surprising to see the service predicting the winner of the US presidential race. What was more surprising, however, was that Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, even though Bing Predicts gave him just 10 percent chances to win the race. Although this is clearly a big fail of its prediction engine, Microsoft has an excuse that pretty much makes sense. The company says that Bing Predicts is based on online trends, so it’s hard to always be accurate, especially in the case of the US presidential elections where charts appear to have changed at the last minute. “Bing Predicts uses several sources including search, web, social data, third-parties and more to inform predictions. True to the nature of all predictions, we can never guarantee 100% accuracy,” the company was quoted... ...