Last night, Dancing With the Stars kicked off another mini dance competition, the winner of which will be assured a spot in the line-up of professional dancers in the 2010 season.

The first round featured dancers Mayo Alanen, Brent Borbon, Afton Delgrosso, Anna Demidova, Genya Mazo, and Snow Urbin. And voting for the first round of eliminations (to be announced next week) commenced thereafter.  The female dancer and the male dancer with the fewest votes will be eliminated.

Question is, can Google Trends predict which male and female dancers will be eliminated first?  If you subscribe to the theory that online search interest is a good indicator of voting behavior, then next week expect professional dancers Brent Borbon and Anna Demidova to be eliminated.

Here's why: during the hours after the show aired, each of Mayo, Afton, Genya and Snow made it into Google's Top 100 search queries; with Snow and Afton surviving in the Top 100 for the entirety of yesterday.  (more details after the jump)

Right After the Show:

- Snow Urbin made it to the 17th ranked query
- Afton Delgrosso made it to the 35th ranked query
- Genya Mazo made it to the 66th ranked query
- Mayo Alanen made it to the 88th ranked query

For All of Yesterday:

- Snow Urbin finished at the 48th ranked query
- Afton Delgrosso finished at the 98th ranked query

Obviously, only time will tell if this theory works.  Stay tuned to next week, when we'll review what actually happens.

Update:  turns out, search interest did not match voter behavior exactly.  Snow Urbin, who had the highest search interest, was voted out during the first go-round; while Anna Demidova stayed on.  On the male side, search interst predicted correctly that Brent Borbon would get the boot.