As Commissioner of the eVisibility office March Madness Pool, I am regrettably here to inform Google that it no longer holds the golden gloves of helping unfortunate souls find their winning streaks It takes more than a voluptuous search trend line to make to the Big Dance they call March Madness. A bracketeer must know the ins and outs of a 5-12 upset, the odds against a 16 seed team going into the tourney facing a number1 seed, and the likelihood of a number 13 seed making it past the sweet 16.

Unbeknownst to Dan Redman, a poor Google Analytics sheep, he overestimated the excitement of this year’s Madness and picked some very outrageous upsets. This year, if you’re going to call it “madness,” a number 1,2, or 3 seed is going to have to lose. I remember when filling out brackets used to be about more than just correctly identifying numbers. This year’s tournament has about as much personality as that new American Idol judge, the girl with no reason for being there. As it turns out, the number one seeds are favored to win, though struggling by, and as much as Google trends would like to predict a pac-10 victory by 75%, it just isn’t going to happen; the overrated Big East seems to want it, despite Jim Calhoun being absent for most of the tournament.

With that said, Google Trends gets a FAIL as Dan is the first to be eliminated with 32 points (save for a possible 4 more points should Arizona take out Louisville). The winner, not much of an improvement as far as effort being put into the bracket, is a solid 22 points ahead of Google (at least Danny was able to find an expert online that made their bracket printable).

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