Wow--Google knows what you'll be searching for in a year
 

Google's whitepaper on future search trends: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2...ch-trends.html

Not surprising considering Google has historically spent millions yearly attracting mathematicians and modellers

We were therefore interested in the following questions:

* How many search queries have trends that are predictable?
* Are some categories more predictable than others? How is the distribution of predictable trends between the various categories?
* How predictable are the trends of aggregated search queries for different categories? Which categories are more predictable and which are less so?

To learn about the predictability of search trends, and so as to overcome our basic limitation of not knowing what the future will entail, we characterize the predictability of a Trends series based on its historical performance. In other words, we estimate the a posteriori predictability of a sequence determined by the error of forecasted trends vs the actual performance.

All these seo threads... this is not the kuni I know! What have you done with him?!?!

realy Wow...

Come on, man. How many sexy Latino man and man on man pix do you want? :1orglaugh:winkwink:

part of the white paper amazing

Section 8.55
Since Feb 8th of 2003 Over 68% of people who searched or clicked thru (See Chapter. 9 for CTR Calc. Algorithm) to www.CraigsList.com or any of its sub pages within certain sections of the mentioned site have returned to the google search and queried terms such as: "Herpes Symptoms", "HIV Symptoms" and or "Herpes Cure". These searched occurred within 13 months of their original visit to the mentioned URL.

kuni? :helpme

it makes sense. don't know how accurate they can predict though. A year ahead seems a little far.

Wow... Just wow...

Over half of the most popular Google search queries are predictable in a 12 month ahead forecast, with a mean absolute prediction error of about 12%.

Future Google will diagnose your illness for you.

Or find spicy man on man pics in the future? :helpme:1orglaugh

:thumbsup wowwwwwww

amazing and kinda funny indeed :thumbsup

This is why I use TOR for *.google.com and delete the evil long-held cookie periodically. Hopefully my search queries get thrown out as random junk, since there's never more than a few before my IP changes or the ID cookie disappears, and breaks the chain tracking all my activity. Fuck them. :2 cents:

What's the URL of this white paper? Can't find it referenced in the article...

hahahahha :1orglaugh

I was joking

Webmasters shouldn't be surprised, we all see large groups of people acting predictably, regularly, be it signup ratios or traffic numbers, with large numbers people act predictably, and google has the best numbers of all

Damnit, that's what inspired my rant reply above. :1orglaugh I still hate Google