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View Poll Results: When will Google launch a public "Google Wisdom" service? | |||
By the end of 2005. |
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1 | 33.33% |
Between January and June 2006. |
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0 | 0% |
After June 2006. |
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2 | 66.67% |
Never. |
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0 | 0% |
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Google to tap the wisdom of crowds?
![]() In another example cited in the book, the author tells how in 1968 the USS Scorpion disappeared in the North Atlantic. With only a few pieces of information that might help to locate the lost sub, a number of people in different fields were asked to individually make their best guess at the sub's exact location. When their answers were combined to form a collective guess, the location was a mere 220 yards from the submarine, closer than any single individual guess, allowing the Navy recover the submarine. Following the "wisdom of crowds" concept, Google has created their own predictive market within the company, and their early results show surprising accuracy. "The markets were designed to forecast product launch dates, new office openings, and many other things of strategic importance to Google." I think this is one of Google's most intriguing projects yet, and it begs the question: What exactly are they up to at the Googleplex? How and when will they roll a "Google Wisdom" service out to the public, and what would they use it for? Please vote in the poll to show how much wisdom there is in the MobileRead crowd, and please don't view the results before voting. [via Official Google Blog] |
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just kinda geeky
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I don't know what they're planning, but these Google people really seem to push the boundaries of what tehnology can do. I get the feeling from some of these other tech. companies that they'd rather just make minor "improvements" on existing technology rather than really stretch their braintrust to come up with new and exciting technologies.
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