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- topstorynz, on 04/30/2009, -1/+27Evidently the 'future' is going to full of porn, mexican pig flu, and Susan Boyle....good work guys.
- philb0t5000, on 04/30/2009, -0/+11I can predict the future without Google. I predict binky79 will post "This is the best xkcd ever!" on the next XKCD.
Take that you internet giant. - AgentMull, on 04/30/2009, -0/+10How Your Search Queries Can Predict the Future?
I'm Ron Burgundy? - vwvwvw, on 04/30/2009, -0/+8So if I search on hotels in New York , they can accurately predict that I will be traveling to New York in the near future? Scary.
- elshanero, on 04/30/2009, -0/+6When this baby hits 88mph, you're going to see some serious sh#t!
- duewydo, on 04/30/2009, -1/+6Then we could create our own future by spamming the search engine. :)
- sodoh, on 04/30/2009, -0/+4Life imitating art. Anyone remember Sneakers?
"People think a bank might be financially shaky."
"Consequence: People start to withdraw their money."
"Pretty soon it is financially shaky."
"Conclusion: You can make banks fail."
"Bzzt. I've already done that. Maybe you've heard about a few? Think bigger."
"Stock market?"
"Yes."
"Currency market?"
"Yes."
"Commodities market?"
"Yes."
"Small countries? " - netneutrality, on 04/30/2009, -0/+3I never take mine off and neither should you.
- duewydo, on 04/30/2009, -0/+3so your saying we will be able to see her exposing herself before she actually does?
- cyrusuncc, on 04/30/2009, -3/+6don't forget Brittney Spears...
- inactive, on 04/30/2009, -0/+3Am I the only person who feels uneasy about this? Google is getting more powerful by the minute. Don't be evil, don't be evil...
- thcobbs, on 04/30/2009, -0/+2If you have enough money.
- WarriorBlake, on 04/30/2009, -0/+2*grabs tin foil hat*
- pegothejerk, on 04/30/2009, -0/+2CausationGoogle: [ Parliament-Funkadelic elected Presidents of the United States 2012 countries problems fixed ]
- orthodoxDrew, on 04/30/2009, -0/+2all your base are belong to us?
- Nossie, on 04/30/2009, -0/+2everything is the future until it falls into *your* present.... the idea being is the cat dead until you look into the box?
millions of people search google for things they think they know about or things they want to know about.... collectively its a huge force ... but me, myself I only see my own searches....
google can see trends before they happen... they are in *my* future because I dont know about them yet but to many others it is in their past... so without rtfa article is sounds like google are saying they can see things before they are popular.
I'm sure with the full power of google you could invest in companies and shares before they became big and totally ripp everyone else off..... - the8thbit, on 04/30/2009, -0/+2At least they're STILL not evil. Hopefully they can keep that up once they control everything. (If google opened Chrome's source I might be a little less uneasy. *hint* *hint*)
- gmuslera, on 04/30/2009, -0/+1Predicting or making the future? In stocks, if you see that everybody is searching for a company, and you buy shares too because of this, the price will raise, in good part because your actions and the actions of everybody that saw that search.
If a lot of people is searching for something we aren't talking about future, we are talking about past, you had a lot of people that already knew about that to start.
Last, but not least... ANY very easy to access and known way to predict the future is or inaccurate or about an unavoidable future. Anything that could be influenced by our actions will change if we add the "will happen" into our premises. Look what happened with markets when all tried to apply mathematical models that predict how they will behave: they didn't - thcobbs, on 04/30/2009, -3/+4Ummmm....
FAIL - kid625, on 05/01/2009, -0/+1real time... obviously if you have that info in hand, you can take advantage of it...Google...
- whatthefu, on 04/30/2009, -0/+1i accidentally the 'be'
- LumberingOaf, on 04/30/2009, -0/+1That was *****' awesome.
- smemily, on 04/30/2009, -0/+1I think he's saying the future is in misspellings and illiteracy.
- Astark, on 04/30/2009, -0/+1Google predicts you will soon be masturbating.
- marcovirtual, on 04/30/2009, -0/+1In the future, if someone googles "Suicide letter template" they will actually be prevented from doing it.
- thelab101, on 04/30/2009, -0/+1the ether!
baader-meinhof
FTW - dsmx, on 04/30/2009, -1/+2by my calculations when this thread hits 88 replies people still won't care.
- TekTrixter, on 04/30/2009, -0/+1the whole thing?
- inactive, on 04/30/2009, -0/+1the future? hell, that's all i ever hear about as it is.
- CarStan, on 04/30/2009, -0/+1yes. yes you are
- WardOnTheWeb, on 04/30/2009, -0/+1Cool stuff, although I highly doubt the economic slump in the way they're suggesting. A much more plausible explanation might be that people are naturally more optimistic about the distant future than they are about the next few years.
- krisrm, on 04/30/2009, -0/+1***** you, Sandiego!
- cosmiccarl, on 04/30/2009, -0/+1Time Monk George Ure has been saying this for years. BTW he predicted a summer of hell. And shortages of food.
- HavocXphere, on 04/30/2009, -0/+1"How" + Statement + "?" = Engrish
- Shakuras, on 04/30/2009, -0/+0Mandy, you have to believe me! Google wants to take over and become the dominant species! They will destroy us all! Destroy us all!
Destroy us all!
Destroy us all!
Destroy us all! - idstorage, on 04/30/2009, -0/+0I think the accuracy in predicting macroeconomic trends based on search statistics will improve as more people incorporate Internet search into their daily lives, specifically within the buying cycle. It seems that access to up-to-date search query stats would help businesses more quickly, and overall better respond to shifts in consumer tastes.
- justok, on 04/30/2009, -1/+1Where are the keys to my FLYING car?
- inactive, on 04/30/2009, -2/+2So I searched for "Japanese cosplay maid spit in mouth" last night. Does that mean I get to taste some maids soon?
- duewydo, on 04/30/2009, -2/+1If my calculations are correct, when this search engine hits 88 queries per hour... you're gonna see some serious *****.
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