Google launches election trends page in Pakistan to facilitate users

A Google Trends Pakistan General Election page has been launched to facilitate the media outlets and the general public to access data related to the February 8 polls, the tech giant announced in a statement on Tuesday. “To help the media outlets and the general public get easy access to this data, Google has set up a Google Trends Pakistan General Election page, a tool that exhibits the top search queries, topics, and interests in parties contesting the elections.

The page also includes data on the top election related topics searched in each part of the country, such as the economy, taxes, and wages, among others,” said the tech giant. The search engine also shared that all the charts from the trends page are embeddable on any site and will be updated even after they’re placed on an outlet’s site.

However, the tech giant clarified that the page is a tool reflecting what people are searching not “a poll or survey and does not reflect voting intentions”. “It merely reflects people’s search interest about particular topics at a local level over a period of time. A spike in a particular search query does not reflect that a political party is somehow ‘more popular’ or ‘winning’, said Google..