http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/09/02/microsoft-pundit-explains-that-decision-engine-means-shopping-engine/ by Stephen E. Arnold Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:55:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/09/02/microsoft-pundit-explains-that-decision-engine-means-shopping-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-67268 sperky undernet Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:35:05 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=8229#comment-67268 Google research showing that over half of the most popular Google search queries are predictable in a 12 month ahead forecast (credit to @aciancone) can show Microsoft - or any [other] upcomer - what to concentrate on in order to make improvements in the major silos that cover the most-used search categories. http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/08/on-predictability-of-search-trends.html What it does not show is whether you or I look for health or travel info and then want to see how Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities" relates to the "Cities of Light" research of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island "...suggest[ing] that that the night-time light output of a nation as seen from space correlates to its GDP. This way of assessing economies could be useful where other data is minimal or misleading." http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/mg20327215-nighttime-photos/1 It is the "long tail" of this kind of search, how ever much free costs, that helps translate into higher, highest ratings. Maybe I should Twitter that now. Google research showing that over half of the most popular Google search queries are predictable in a 12 month ahead forecast (credit to @aciancone) can show Microsoft – or any [other] upcomer – what to concentrate on in order to make improvements in the major silos that cover the most-used search categories. http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/08/on-predictability-of-search-trends.html
What it does not show is whether you or I look for health or travel info and then want to see how Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities” relates to the “Cities of Light” research of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island “…suggest[ing] that that the night-time light output of a nation as seen from space correlates to its GDP. This way of assessing economies could be useful where other data is minimal or misleading.”
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/mg20327215-nighttime-photos/1
It is the “long tail” of this kind of search, how ever much free costs, that helps translate into higher, highest ratings. Maybe I should Twitter that now.

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