Comments on: Where to find the Yahoo!-Google letter to the CFTC about prediction markets http://blog.oddhead.com/2009/05/01/yahoo-google-letter-to-cftc-on-prediction-markets/ Musings of a computer scientist and Yahoo on prediction markets, gambling, and estimating the odds of everything Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:56:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: David Pennock http://blog.oddhead.com/2009/05/01/yahoo-google-letter-to-cftc-on-prediction-markets/comment-page-1/#comment-474 David Pennock Tue, 12 May 2009 15:21:46 +0000 http://blog.oddhead.com/?p=621#comment-474 Update: It seems the heart of the discrepancy is that Google doesn't seem to have the original MidasOracle "WEB EXCLUSIVE" post indexed. Try searching for: site:www.midasoracle.org "web exclusive" google yahoo on <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.midasoracle.org+%22web+exclusive%22+google+yahoo" rel="nofollow">Google</a> then try <a href="http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=site%3Awww.midasoracle.org+%22web+exclusive%22+google+yahoo" rel="nofollow">Yahoo!</a>. Why? Probably the Google crawler just missed it for whatever reason. Certainly I've seen this happen the other way around. A <a href="http://battellemedia.com/archives/001212.php" rel="nofollow">conspiracy theorist</a> might ask whether Google kept the page out of its index purposefully, since it contains information that at the time Google was not expecting to yet discuss publicly. I doubt this, and indeed Bo Cowgill says "There's no conspiracy as far as I know". Update: It seems the heart of the discrepancy is that Google doesn’t seem to have the original MidasOracle “WEB EXCLUSIVE” post indexed.

Try searching for:

site:www.midasoracle.org “web exclusive” google yahoo

on Google then try Yahoo!.

Why? Probably the Google crawler just missed it for whatever reason. Certainly I’ve seen this happen the other way around. A conspiracy theorist might ask whether Google kept the page out of its index purposefully, since it contains information that at the time Google was not expecting to yet discuss publicly. I doubt this, and indeed Bo Cowgill says “There’s no conspiracy as far as I know”.

]]> By: Allan E http://blog.oddhead.com/2009/05/01/yahoo-google-letter-to-cftc-on-prediction-markets/comment-page-1/#comment-473 Allan E Sun, 03 May 2009 18:34:09 +0000 http://blog.oddhead.com/?p=621#comment-473 With high-profile securities such as CDS's being forced onto regulated exchanges, where does this leave prediction markets? The ideas are deeply related so I thought it likely that new legislation or regulatory powers in the pipeline could (over time) benefit the cause of prediction markets 'in the large' With high-profile securities such as CDS’s being forced onto regulated exchanges, where does this leave prediction markets?

The ideas are deeply related so I thought it likely that new legislation or regulatory powers in the pipeline could (over time) benefit the cause of prediction markets ‘in the large’

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