P.S.: The stats would be much better if I opened the comments more widely. I don’t, because it saturates the server. In the future, we will see.

An excerpt of the historical chart regarding the Google Search traffic sent to Midas Oracle (I enlarged the time period so you can see the 2008 US Election Day spike):

In the near future, Midas Oracle is going to unveil strategic partnerships that will allow us to reach millions of people a year.

Midas Oracle has a Google PageRank of 6/10.

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What Is Midas Oracle About?

Midas Oracle is a popular group blog about predictions. We are interested in:

• objective, dynamic probabilistic predictions;
• collective intelligence mechanisms producing probabilistic predictions.

We focus on collective forecasting, and, especially, on prediction markets (a.k.a. event derivative markets). We seek to understand their:

1. predictive power (investigated by many economists);
2. profit opportunities (sought by the traders speculating on the prediction exchanges);
3. hedging utility (employed by the risk managers);
4. entertainment ability (delivered by both the real-money and the play-money prediction markets);
5. prediction software.

Additionally, we publish on:

1. information technology;
2. inventions and innovations;
3. business administration and startup creation;
4. Internet marketing (in particular, organic marketing and search engine optimization);
5. world politics;
6. cinematography and music;
7. anything else.

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What Problem Do We Solve?

• Collective forecasting brings more objectivity to the art and science of predicting the future.
• Market-generated predictions are the most objective forays into the future.

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What Does “Midas Oracle” Come From?

• “Midas” refers to the financial traders.
• “Oracle” refers to the predictive power of the financial markets.

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What Is The Uniqueness Of Midas Oracle?

1. We publish the best mutant ideas.
2. We link out a lot to external resources.

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- 21,952 visits;

- 41,622 pageviews.

Thanks to you. I am very fortunate to have loyal readers. Thanks so much. I am working in the back-office to develop Midas Oracle further, so as to serve you better in the coming years. Stay tuned… this is only the beginning of history.

[*] According to Google Analytics. The internal stats from the web server show numbers that are higher than that.

The winner: Daniel Horowitz of The Emergent Fool

- Yes, as Daniel guessed it, Google is sending about one thousand people a day on Midas Oracle .ORG, and more than half of that is related to my post about how to download Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s documentary film, HOME. The web traffic is from Europe and from Down Under —with very little traffic coming from the U.S. (Here’s why.)

The losers: Paul Hewitt of Toronto Prediction Market Blog and Niall O’Connor of Betting Market

- Twitter sent us only 11 people, yesterday, Paul. The value of Twitter also lays in the interaction between bloggers and readers. I got plenty of comments thru Twitter.

- Niall, eat more fish.

ADDENDUM: Of course, posting about The Planet Earth From Above is not part of the mission statement of Midas Oracle. But I always try to get inbound links. And that documentary might be an opportunity —we will know later on. Because of all the inbound links we got (from all topics), any post on prediction markets or collective forecasting appears on top at Google. See, publishing on other topics help in the end.

UPDATE: Our secret is revealed…

This stats is only for the referring sites, not for the search engines.

And click here to read Jed’s comment on Paul’s analysis about HP’s EPMs…