Yahoo! Research does investigate prediction markets —see David Pennock (the inventor of the DPMM) et al.
MicroSoft Research does investigate prediction markets —see Todd Proebsting (“I lead Microsoft Research’s Information Forecasting Exchange project“).
Google Research does not investigate prediction markets —see this interview. (The prediction markets effort at Google is part of the 20% project of a group of managers.)
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