Google Submits Patent Application For Online Voting

Started by TravelsAsia, February 18, 2016, 07:58:31 PM

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donkeypong

Matter of time before somebody does this. It will probably be one of the big boys, which will lend the project some trust and credibility.

TravelsAsia

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/02/18/1629203/google-submits-patent-application-for-online-voting


"Google has outlined a concept for real-time online voting in the Google home page in a patent to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Entitled 'Social Voting-Based Campaigns in Search', the application proposes a voting user interface (VUI) that will enable a user to submit one or more votes in a voting-based campaign, giving the hypothetical example of a campaign to vote for the 'Top American Singer', with users authenticated via Google log-ins. If implemented, the system would represent a new foray for Google into generating rather than recording analytics and metrics of popularity."