April Fools Day: Google’s gDay MATE and a Day Without Google
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Written By Sepideh Saremi | April 1, 2008 | Share This
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Happy April Fools’ Day! Google’s gag this year is gDay MATE, which searches the future. They had us at “fuzzy measure analysis,” and we are big fans also of “language recession analysis.” From Google:
The core technology that powers gDay™ is MATE™ (Machine Automated Temporal Extrapolation).
Using MATE’s™ machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques developed in Google’s Sydney offices, we can construct elements of the future.
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.
Be sure to check out the “Beta Testimonials” at the right side of the gDay MATE page.
Today is also the day Alt Search Engines (via ReadWriteWeb) reprises its annual “Day Without Google,” during which web users are encouraged to use any engine but the big G - which incidentally, according to Search Engine Watch, represents 69% of the online advertising market after its DoubleClick merger was approved.
Topics: Google, Just for Fun |