Google Search will be inaccessible to US visitors for at least 4 hours due to a “blackout” protesting pending legislation, before 2013

Created by PseudonymousUser on 2012-01-12; known on 2013-01-01; judged wrong by PseudonymousUser on 2013-01-01.

• PseudonymousUser estimated 1% on 2012-01-12
• PseudonymousUser said “accessible = can be used with a web browser by navigating to www.google.com, or via the built-in Google search in Firefox or Chrome. Still accessible if there’s a link you have to click to get your results.” on 2012-01-12
• kiba estimated 20% on 2012-01-12
• RobertLumley estimated 5% on 2012-01-12
• Anubhav estimated 2% on 2012-01-12
• gwern estimated 5% and said “of course they will let you see your results, they could hardly do otherwise” on 2012-01-12
• JoshuaZ estimated 8% on 2012-01-12
• Jayson Virissimo estimated 10% on 2012-01-12
• spqr0a1 estimated 3% on 2012-01-17
• PseudonymousUser said “they’ll just put up a link, they say: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57360223-261/google-will-protest-sopa-using-popular-home-page/?part=rss&subj=latest-news&tag=title” on 2012-01-18
• kiba   judged this prediction wrong on 2012-01-18.
• RobertLumley   judged this prediction unknown on 2012-01-18.
• RobertLumley said “This could still happen, kiba, since the prediction says “before 2013”. SOPA/PIPA could fail and Google could launch another protest against different legislation.” on 2012-01-18
• Grognor estimated 10% on 2012-01-20
• Serge estimated 1% and said “They have more subtle ways to protest.” on 2012-01-25
• saturn estimated 0% on 2012-01-25
• kiba estimated 0% on 2012-11-07
• ChristianKl estimated 1% on 2012-11-29
• PseudonymousUser   judged this prediction wrong on 2013-01-01.
• kuudes   judged this prediction unknown on 2016-12-21.
• kuudes   judged this prediction wrong on 2016-12-21.