Tag Archives: Google Web Search

Google Squared is a big piece of crap.

Try “prediction markets” and “collective forecasting”. Gimme Wolfram instead. Technologizer: [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 … Continue reading

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Emile Servan-Schreiber coined the term “collective forecasting”… Robin Hanson popularized it…

… and Midas Oracle is reaping all the benefits. I am laughing thru my a**.

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How come prediction exchanges are ranking so low for American Idol?

Midas Oracle has received many visitors from Google this week, thanks to the great work of Ryan from HubDub. I tried to understand why. Turn out when you type “american idol prediction market” (you can add the “s” at the … Continue reading

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Google Wonder Wheel – Prediction Markets

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INKLING MARKETS IS NOW ON THE *FIRST* PAGE OF GOOGLE FOR “PREDICTION MARKETS”.

Google Web Search

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No prediction market archives on the Web = No search engines for prediction market data

I raved the other day about the coming of search engines for (public) data, and I dreamed up about search engines for prediction market data. What I completely forgot to mention is that most of prediction exchanges don’t publish their … Continue reading

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Could Google Have Caught Swine Flu (a.k.a. Mexican Flu, or H1N1) Early?

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There is an apetite for socially valuable predictions and forecasts, out there.

That post had no original content. Just the republication of the HubDub prediction market charts. (I will update that post with new links to InTrade and IEM.) P.S.: I will show you the InTrade charts, later on. But as you … Continue reading

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Google users are digging around to get the probability of a Swine Flu pandemy.

- Interestingly, the results are very different with “swine flu predictions”. Predictify is above HubDub in both cases, you’ll notice. – External Links: – Google Trends – Google Insights for Search Previously: Swine Flu Prediction Markets

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Predicting the Present with Google Trends

Predicting the Present with Google Trends – (PDF file) – by Al Varian et al. Google Trends + Google Insights For Search Via Prof Levitt Previously: Flu predictions based on querying behavior (on Google and Yahoo!) are somewhat less impressive … Continue reading

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