Google Launches gDay - Search Tomorrow's Web Today
Google Australia has announced today the launch of gDay, a new search engine that allows users to search a day in advance of real time:
Google spiders crawl publicly available web information and our index of historic, cached web content. Using a mashup of numerous factors such as recurrence plots, fuzzy measure analysis, online betting odds and the weather forecast from the iGoogle weather gadget, we can create a sophisticated model of what the internet will look like 24 hours from now.
We can use this technique to predict almost anything on the web – tomorrow’s share price movements, sports results or news events. Plus, using language regression analysis, Google can even predict the actual wording of blogs and newspaper columns, 24 hours before they’re written!
To rank these future pages in order of relevance, gDay™ uses a statistical extrapolation of a page’s future PageRank, called SageRank.
The core technology that powers gDay™ is MATE™ (Machine Automated Temporal Extrapolation).
Doug
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Pretty amazing. I can't wait to buy a lotto ticket in Sydney. Wait... I know tomorrow's winning numbers, but it's already tomorrow today there, so what I need is day AFTER tomorrow's numbers...Damn!
Very clever! I've been spoofed again! Those Google guys are having too much fun!
Since it came a day early, I didn't realize at first it was a joke. Good one!
It's now Monday in LA and Tuesday in Melbourne. So I an already searching in the future, right?
Doesn't measure up to past April Fool's jokes. Or maybe this is just the warm-up?
You posted this a day too early for an April Fool's joke.
I know it looked that way, Kristin. But I used gDay's "one day in advance" search option yesterday and was able to see what was coming today.
Doug
I was expecting something more astounding from Google this year. Disappointed.
All I need is one big Powerball jackpot and I'm set. Thank's Google.
I get it if you are searching Australia sites from the states, but what if you are searching the other direction?
Happy April Fools Day!!
Descent gag obviously aimed at the U.S. which is a calendar day behind Australia. That part is pretty funny!
Top 100 April Fool's Hoaxes of All Time.