With only seven contestants left on FOX's "American Idol," the credibility of DialIdol.com is on the line now more than ever despite the site's accurate predictions of who will be booted out each week. Earlier this "Idol" season, it wasn't too hard to predict which contestants would see the door based on their vocal abilities and one could argue that luck could have played in the site's credibility as an accurate gauge.

So far, DialIdol has been 82% accurate through 17 eliminations, which is quite a feat. The site, which ranks contestants each week by measuring the busy signal of each respective candidate's phone lines and tabs the line(s) with the longest average signal as the probable loser, predicted last week's outcast of Bucky Covington and the shocking exit of Mandisa the week before.

Why are the upcoming weeks so important? Because if DialIdol can establish a reasonable method of predicting who will be sent their pink slip, it will be a huge thorn in the side of the FOX network, who banks on the uncertainty of knowing who will stay and who will go when it comes to bringing in and keeping its steady viewership. It also means that the commonly used phrase by "Idol" host Ryan Seacrest of "...find out after the break" would become annoying delays in informing the public of what they already know instead of suspense-building moments (albeit annoying suspense but still, suspense).

Needless to say, if DialIdol accurately predicts who will win "American Idol" this season, FOX is bound to find some way to shut the site down. Either that or cut the one-hour time slot that "Idol" occupies to a half-an-hour because Seacrest won't be able to use the suspense pauses. "Idol" viewership would suffer as a result and that means that the Benjamins won't be rolling in as much as they are right now. That, above all, is something that FOX by no means wants to see.

On the flip side, if DialIdol flounders down the stretch, it wouldn't be a complete loss for the website. If the dial tones can predict early and mid-season eliminations four-out-of-five times, that would still be enough to deal some harm to the raging "Idol" machine and eliminate some of the show's suspense.

In today's world of improved technology and the unique applications of that technology, it's not a surprise that something like DialIdol hasn't rolled around already. Now that it has, it's time for it to shine in the big moments to solidify its spot as the "next big thing."