gDay™ with MATE™
Combining today’s themes of hoax and time travel, Google Australia has launched the gDay(tm) feature - “search tomorrow’s web, today!” - powered by MATE (Machine Automated Temporal Extrapoloation). The modification to the PageRank algorithm is naturally called SageRank.
The methodology (”mashup of…recurrence plots, fuzzy measure analysis, online betting odds and the weather forecast”) bears some similarity to Asimov’s psychohistory. Their FAQ also touches on some interesting questions about second-order prediction: if everyone has access to tomorrow’s (90% likely) scores, Lotto numbers, share prices, etc. what does that do to established markets? And could you read, say, of your impending demise and act to prevent it, creating an epistemological paradox?
And to make the most of the limited range, can you combine gDay with Gmail’s Custom Time to send gleaned details further back in time (all the way back to 4/1/2004 per their FAQ)?
