Tag Archives: search results

Google Search now personalizes everyone’s search results.

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

- Search Engine Land – Google Blog –> Read those 2 stories. This is important.

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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.

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

What Can Search Predict?

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Matt Cutts explains Google Caffeine to *you*.

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Matt Cutts explains Google Caffeine.

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See the future’s Google Search results on prediction markets and collective forecasting

Posted on August 11, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Google Caffeine Google Caffeine – “prediction markets” Google Caffeine – “collective forecasting” About Google Caffeine What’s going to change

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A good New York Times editorial I agree with

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

It says that prediction markets are easier to interpret than the Google Search (or Yahoo! Search, or Bing Search) statistics —when you’re about forecasting any trend.

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Midas Oracle has a de facto monopoly on “collective forecasting”.

Posted on June 7, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

If you type “collective forecasting” in the 3 main search engines, Midas Oracle pops up as #1 in the results. Thanks to Emile of NewsFutures and Prof Robin for their devotion and plain hard work in pushing this industry keyword … Continue reading →

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Do give the Nobel prize to Yahoo! research scientist David Pennock. — Santo Subito! [*]

Posted on November 14, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

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 … Continue reading →

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Google is THE problem, but BetFair should discover the solution.

Posted on March 30, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Here’s why. Take a look at the following Google search results: – - PROBLEM #1: GOOGLE LINKS PROMINENTLY TO THE POST THAT PUBLICIZED THE RUMOR. SOLUTION: Updating that post with the link to the post that debunks that rumor. RISK: … Continue reading →

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Algorithms don’t leap out of Google like Athena from the head of Zeus.

Posted on June 23, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Google’s Matt Cutts in the New York Times: Even Google is interested in exploring “human powered” search. “I don’t think we’re ideologically bound to only computers, only algorithms,” Mr. Cutts said. In fact, he said, Google has combed through its … Continue reading →

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Google Universal Search + Google Navigation Bar

Posted on May 19, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Unless you’ve just surfaced out of an Afghan cave or are too busy heading to the conference on gambling and prediction markets, you already know that Google has introduced Google Universal Search, “a search product still in its early stages … Continue reading →

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