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How Bing could kill Google by partnering with news organizations such as the New York Times

According to Jason Calcanis… [click here for the debunking of this idea].

MicroSoft buying Yahoo! Search business?

I only see a Reuters item about this at TechMeme.

David Pennock’s boss is clueless.

Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz is totally clueless. She is not the right person to lead a search engine / portal.

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

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 (and the underlying concept). It is all fair that Midas Oracle is reaping the benefits. [...]

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.

Google and Yahoo! are sending to us almost one thousand web visitors searching for predictions on the next US elections, each weekday that God makes.

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- Midas Oracle is #1 for the “us electoral map prediction” query.
- Midas Oracle is #5 for the “us electoral map” query.
- Midas Oracle is #7 for the “us elections prediction” query.
- etc.
WE ARE MIDAS ORACLE. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE. YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED.

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