Code name: Google Caffeine
Warming: Works only 50% of the time. (The other 50%, the results come from the current Google Search.)
The secret URL where Google prototypes the future of search
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The main advantage of web search as a prediction tool may have less to do with its superiority over other methods than with its generality, low cost, and real-time nature.
Prediction market pioneer and Wall Street outcast Max Keiser is frequently searched on Google since the start of the 2008 financial burst.
Matt Cutts explains Google Caffeine to *you*.
What happened to Inkling Markets?
The Inkling Markets website is not on the first page for the “-prediction markets”- query at Google Search.
It appears on the 3rd page —-where nobody will find them.
By the way, the NewsFutures website has re-made it to the 1st page.
Google Squared is a big piece of crap.
Try “-prediction markets”- and “-collective forecasting”-.
Gimme Wolfram instead.
[Wolfram] Alpha, while imperfect, is ready to do all sorts of useful things right now. Squared feels more like the initial proof of concept for something that may take years to get right.
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Why HubDub won: Google loves HubDub, and the Google users love what HubDub produces.
Wikipedia-style collective Intelligence didnt kill Google Web Search.
I blogged about how Wikipedia killed Encarta (the encyclopedia published by MicroSoft).
Today, here’-s a report on the demise of Wikia —-a search engine partially powered by human input (a la Wikipedia), and co-founded by Jimmy Wales. The Wired article lists all the search engine startups (Snap, PowerSet, Cuil, etc.) that miserably failed to dent into Google’-s de facto monopoly.
Do give the Nobel prize to Yahoo! research scientist David Pennock. – Santo Subito! [*]
He and his co-authors were the first to publish about the fact that flu-related searches on the Web are precise predictors of the upcoming influenza outbreaks.
Congrats.
Best wishes for the rest of their scientific career.
[*] “-Make him a Saint, now!”-, in Italian. 
#2, just behind electoral-vote.com
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