Midas Oracle .ORG » Yahoo! Search http://www.midasoracle.org Prediction Markets, etc. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:24:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How Bing could kill Google by partnering with news organizations such as the New York Times http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/11/12/jason-calcanis-google-bing-news/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/11/12/jason-calcanis-google-bing-news/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:25:44 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=19058 According to Jason Calcanis… [click here for the debunking of this idea].

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/11/12/jason-calcanis-google-bing-news/feed/ 2 MicroSoft buying Yahoo! Search business? http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/07/19/intrade-spreading-unfounded-rumors/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/07/19/intrade-spreading-unfounded-rumors/#comments Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:11:45 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=15385 I only see a Reuters item about this at TechMeme.

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]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/07/19/intrade-spreading-unfounded-rumors/feed/ 0 David Pennock’s boss is clueless. http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/06/09/yahoo-boss-clueless/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/06/09/yahoo-boss-clueless/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:08:33 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=14544 Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz is totally clueless. She is not the right person to lead a search engine / portal.

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/06/09/yahoo-boss-clueless/feed/ 0 Midas Oracle has a de facto monopoly on “collective forecasting”. http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/06/07/midas-oracle-collective-forecasting/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/06/07/midas-oracle-collective-forecasting/#comments Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:58:01 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=14500 Continue reading →]]> 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. :-D

Joke aside, Midas Oracle will always link out to the pioneers and the best theorists and practitioners. So, we are not selfishly keeping the Google juice for ourselves —we re-distribute it around.

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/06/07/midas-oracle-collective-forecasting/feed/ 0 Do give the Nobel prize to Yahoo! research scientist David Pennock. — Santo Subito! [*] http://www.midasoracle.org/2008/11/14/nobel-prize/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2008/11/14/nobel-prize/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:41:28 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=11385 Continue reading →]]> 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. :-D

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2008/11/14/nobel-prize/feed/ 6 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. http://www.midasoracle.org/2008/09/08/google-midas-oracle-us-elections-prediction/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2008/09/08/google-midas-oracle-us-elections-prediction/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:51:06 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=9249 Continue reading →]]>

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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.

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WE ARE MIDAS ORACLE. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE. YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED.

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