'Search tomorrow's Web, today'

It's already Wednesday in Australia, which may help to explain this wild new predictive tool by Google engineers in Australia that reportedly anticipates the creation of new Web content a day in advance using machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies.

"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," according to a Google announcement about the new search technology, dubbed gDay.

"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!"

Maybe a good tool to gauge tomorrow's real estate market trends? A gDay FAQ suggests that "home hunters won’t have to waste time showing up to auctions for properties that sell above their budget."

The system that powers gDay is called "Machine Automated Temporal Extrapolation," or MATE for short. And if you're a bit fuzzy on the science behind this beta search technology, take note of today's date before reading further.

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