Google Launches Future Search - gDay

[DigitalDude]

Google Launches Future Search


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.

Source: TechCrunch gDay

>>>> Happy April Fools Day <<<<

[s18000rpm]

take the "D" out of "gDay", thats what it is


no offence to them...

[kalpik]

Heh.. I thought so.. Google..

[NucleusKore]

Wonder how useful will it be

[ray|raven]

^Nice one from google.

[blueshift]

This is unique.

[DigitalDude]

Read the FAQ http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/faq.html




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[ray|raven]

^Lolz,Funny.
Google makes the best April Day jokes

[sachin_kothari]

i knew it was some april fool joke.
i expected something from google as last time they came with google paper.

[blueshift]

This is funny.

Q: Why is this section titled "frequently asked questions", when the product is barely released?
A: We used gDay™ to work out the questions that people would ask.

[abhinandh]

nice one from google!!!!

[anand1]

Things to rely on is Prediction! Its too bad. No one can ko what to happen in future.Mr Google...!

[The Unknown]

OOOOOOO

THIS IS A APRIL FOOL JOKE --- http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/policies.html

[DigitalDude]

^^^^
thanks captain obvious



p.s. 'an April fool joke'


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[nvidia]

rofl... Nice...

Q: How accurate is gDay™? A: Anywhere between 75% and 95%. It depends on the website in question and the day of the week (for example, our spiders don’t work Sundays).

[din]

Was expecting something from google (as always) today but never thought they will make something like this (again as always - innovative ideas lol)

[DigitalDude]

Lol More Google April Fool's Jokes hehe


Gmail Custom Time



http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html


Google Virgle - The Adventure of Many Lifetimes






http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/...ct-virgle.html

http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html



it must be uber cool to work in Google



Also Youtube RickRoll's its users





If you aren’t familiar with RickRolling - it’s when someone puts a link on website to something, but it actually takes you to a music video of Rick Astley’s “hit” song Never Gonna Give You Up.

YouTube is RickRolling its own users on April 1. All of the featured videos for YouTube UK and YouTube Australia actually link to the Rick Astley video. We’ll see if YouTube.com does the same at midnight EST tonight, too.

This is ok, but not nearly as funny as it would be if the YouTube team broke into the Google search servers and simply redirected Google.com to the video. Now that would be funny.

More coverage of this here.


http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31...ckrolls-users/



lets see what all they come up with still



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[nvidia]

This was done last year - Googlt TiSP(Toilet Internet Service Provider)

[DigitalDude]

More Google April Fool Madness

Google Wake Up Kit



http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/new_wakeup.html (loong page)



Build Your Very Own Google Airplane



If you create a new document in Google Docs, you’ll see a number of options in the “File” pull down menu. One of those options, which as far as I can tell wasn’t there yesterday, is “New airplane.” It’s right there after “New document.”

Choosing it opens a new file with folding instructions to build a paper airplane.

Why? Dunno. This is strange even for Google. Even on April Fools.
First reader to print it out, fold it properly, video it actually flying, upload the video on YouTube or any other video sharing service and post a link in the comments below gets a 2GB iPod Shuffle in the color of your choice. And we’ll give a second one to whoever can get the most distance from their plane (this is going to be somewhat subjective, I’ll make the final decision) (this is alwaysentertaining). Thanks for the tip, Jonathan Chard. The pdf of the image is here.




As you can see from above, Micheal held a competition for actually making the plane and posting the video of the flying paper plane in youtube

see a few videos lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_or2Drncy8 *
http://qik.com/video/46582 *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOWDdIKIeY0, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu6R1NW72Ek (same guy) *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZmUaFBCoa0
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...57444846&hl=en *

http://www.youtube.com/v/gCKwPxNhWAQ

videos marked with * got a iPod Shuffle as prize


Source: TechCrunch
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[DigitalDude]

lol Google Books Sniff and Scratch

http://books.google.com/bkshp?hl=en&tab=gp

hehe

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[ico]

Last time, that Gmail Paper joke was damn funny.....
My friend gave me a call that we can get printed mails from Google for free......