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March 31, 2008

Google Launches Future Search

Michael Arrington

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Google Australia launched Gday today, 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 technology behind Gday is called Mate, which stands for Machine Automated Temporal Extrapolation.

More here.

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  1. Andrew

    March 31st, 2008 at 3:49 pm

    How about making one april’s fools post and put all of this stuff in one place?

  2. Pierre Carion

    March 31st, 2008 at 3:50 pm

    sure!

  3. Gaurav

    March 31st, 2008 at 3:50 pm

    Isn’t a great April 1 joke!

  4. Galen

    March 31st, 2008 at 3:51 pm

    Har har. You can turn the internet off for a day tomorrow.

  5. Evan

    March 31st, 2008 at 3:51 pm

    Gday Mate. I see what they did there.

  6. Dave Litsky

    March 31st, 2008 at 3:51 pm

    The next twenty-four hours is going to be w0mg h4x! isn’t it?

  7. Tropical Gangstas

    March 31st, 2008 at 3:52 pm

    Arrington, you blew your April Fools load way too early.

  8. Michael Arrington

    March 31st, 2008 at 3:52 pm

    andrew - absolutely not. i love april fools.

  9. MadMax3000

    March 31st, 2008 at 3:52 pm

    People search in the present and the past, we don’t search in the future. What to search for in the future anyway. Maybe Google knows best!

    G-April Fool!

    It gotta be

    Search in the future… hahahahah

    http://www.givemebeats.com/

  10. Cesar Cardoso

    March 31st, 2008 at 3:53 pm

    I imagine that, if I were Australian, I would laugh a bit more. Anyway :P

  11. Tory

    March 31st, 2008 at 3:53 pm

    Come on Google, you could do better than that!

  12. Dave Litsky

    March 31st, 2008 at 3:54 pm

    ^
    This guy misses the point altogether (@9 MadMax3000)

  13. Dominic Rivera

    March 31st, 2008 at 3:54 pm

    I can do tomorrow’s work today… and Wednesday’s work tomorrow… Thank you Google :)

  14. Owen Byrne

    March 31st, 2008 at 3:57 pm

    Ah here we have explicit mention of Australia, where it is already April 1.

  15. Alex

    March 31st, 2008 at 3:57 pm

    last year it was the free WiFI connection via the toilet - this year GOOG is giving everybody the winning lotto numbers. I love it! Next your going to tell me that President Bush has an approval rating of higher than 25. lol

  16. eee eee

    March 31st, 2008 at 4:06 pm

    hey

  17. Duncan Riley

    March 31st, 2008 at 4:07 pm

    Sadly that result still isn’t a Freo win :-(

  18. Aussie

    March 31st, 2008 at 4:11 pm

    Yawn

  19. Bah Humbug

    March 31st, 2008 at 4:12 pm

    Doesn’t really matter where in the world it’s April 1st if you’ve got “March 31 2008″ in large writing at the top of the article, does it?

    Fail.

  20. Dude

    March 31st, 2008 at 4:17 pm

    The beauty of this is that if you search for this article with the new “Future” search… it will show up as posted April 1st.
    Thus the April Fools joke applies.

    Win.

  21. Nihat Mala

    March 31st, 2008 at 4:19 pm

    Geek humour sucks.

  22. CARversation.com

    March 31st, 2008 at 4:20 pm

    Darn, thought this was real, i thought i was gonna b rich with online sport gambling.

  23. Harold

    March 31st, 2008 at 4:23 pm

    Duncan

    Good to see Google Australia backs the Eagles.

  24. Robert Lancer

    March 31st, 2008 at 4:25 pm

    It’s a corny Aprils Fool’s joke obviously, get real TC.

  25. Martin

    March 31st, 2008 at 4:25 pm

    nice man :)

  26. Ed Heacox

    March 31st, 2008 at 4:26 pm

    We already do this every day at Predictify… maybe for April Fools we should look into the past…

  27. Jakeimade

    March 31st, 2008 at 4:27 pm

    Right now its monday afternoon in LA and tuesday morning in Melbourne… Doesnt that mean I am already searching the internet in the future? :)

  28. Ferodynamics

    March 31st, 2008 at 4:30 pm

    Does this affect my Google Pigeon Rank?

  29. Cam

    March 31st, 2008 at 4:41 pm

    @Mike - I knew you were going to publish this.

  30. Jesus H Christ

    March 31st, 2008 at 5:08 pm

    i just made gday my start page.

  31. Vinay

    March 31st, 2008 at 5:19 pm

    http://www.google.com.au/intl/.....icies.html
    Welcome to Google Australia’s April Fool’s Day joke

    LOL ^^ !!

  32. james

    March 31st, 2008 at 5:21 pm

    I think Arrington didn’t recognize this as a April Fool’s Day joke… as simple as that…or why would he post it on his blog on March 31st…. Doesnt show much competence to be honest….

  33. Sammy Ashouri

    March 31st, 2008 at 5:25 pm

    This should be interesting.

  34. Beej

    March 31st, 2008 at 5:43 pm

    West Coast Eagles beating Essendon - well thats a no brainer

  35. Cam

    March 31st, 2008 at 6:45 pm

    @James #32 - One of the great things about a globe is that it’s been 1 April for 12 hours and 44 minutes here. You’re from the midwest, no?

  36. Jorge

    March 31st, 2008 at 6:51 pm

    This is one very lame April fool’s joke.

  37. 113.com

    March 31st, 2008 at 7:04 pm

    Gday said Google launch Gdrive on 20080401…

  38. Anatoly

    March 31st, 2008 at 7:09 pm

    I just queried Google Future search for lame april fools jokes, and guess which site came up on top?

  39. Andrew

    March 31st, 2008 at 7:16 pm

    i noticed google http://www.google.com/experimental/ search the other day.

  40. Billy

    March 31st, 2008 at 7:28 pm

    Bah, I hate April Fool’s. Consider all the news you hear to be fake for the next 24 hours. :)

  41. Cat

    March 31st, 2008 at 8:02 pm

    Here’s a link to the video press release:

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI

  42. Sirpingalot

    March 31st, 2008 at 9:12 pm

    Not as good as their previous April fools jokes

  43. Irene Smith

    March 31st, 2008 at 9:17 pm

    Interesting. Maybe it can tell me who will win the footy finals this year or which horses to bet on ;)

    Irene Green lasers guide

  44. 符碼印象

    March 31st, 2008 at 10:02 pm

    ha~ it’s really funny >__<

  45. Ravi

    March 31st, 2008 at 10:33 pm

    Nice guys……! Google….. never sucks.. always wins !

  46. OMG

    April 1st, 2008 at 8:25 am

    This is about as unfunny as a Michael Arrington fake lawsuit joke.

  47. Harry Wang

    April 1st, 2008 at 9:15 am

    I think a backbone engineer somewhere should just unplug a router or two somewhere…now that would be quite an April Fool’s Day joke. Seriously though, the suing Facebook joke would have been awesome if not for the latte comment and such. It had feet…

    Harry “not a foot man” Wang

  48. james

    April 1st, 2008 at 11:51 am

    To post 35… nah I am not from the midwest but its one thing admitting that he didnt recognize this as a fools day joke… and now try to pretend it was intended… it just simply shows not much competence.
    And regarding the globe thing…. well then his blog shouldnt post it on march 31st…

    HE GOT GOTTEN AS SIMPLE AS THAT… and its so obvious its scary that this happened according to his words to the 2nd most important person…

    And you dont even realize it…

    I lived on 4 continents so trust me I likely know this globe better then you ever will…

  49. james

    April 1st, 2008 at 11:53 am

    …. oh and after having been gotten to create his own (the lawsuit joke) a day earlier is pretty pathetic attempt to cover up his incompetence…

  50. sh

    April 1st, 2008 at 4:26 pm

    Considering what investors are funding these days in the social networking space, this clever idea might even find venture money. My creative juices are flowing. Thanks for sharing!

  51. Nithin

    April 1st, 2008 at 5:18 pm

    Good one there ! They cud have done better though…

  52. Nithin

    April 1st, 2008 at 5:20 pm

    Google Romance surely was a good and a funny one ! Tisp was a lil techie for a non-tech to understand though

  53. Adnan

    April 2nd, 2008 at 3:22 am

    gOOgle classified search gives better search results than any other site

    chek it http://www.googlecs.com

  54. Eric Borgos

    April 2nd, 2008 at 3:48 am

    This is kind of like my site at http://www.findthoughts.com where you can search what other people are thinking.

  55. Connie

    April 3rd, 2008 at 7:10 am

    Great concept! We have to be future focused. Why not Google? It would help us a lot.

    :)

  56. Jonathan Casuncad

    April 3rd, 2008 at 5:38 pm

    Ohh. But don’t you worry my SEO friends. I have just developed a site submission tool that can submit your websites to directories in the past. So your websites today will have thousands of backlinks from the past.

    Problem solved. Now let’s move on to the next algorithm.

  57. vijay

    April 4th, 2008 at 6:05 am

    hey this site is waste… fully faltooooooooo

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