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29 June 2010

Idea: Google as a survey tool

RH:
1. Google search [and Yahoo, Bing, searches, too] can be used as an instant, pretty accurate, survey tool to survey what the world thinks, on pretty much ANY topic, given that the internet is an unlimited fount of thoughts, on every conceivable and even inconceivable, subject.

2. You only need to frame the Search Phrase in such a way as to elicit the most accurate answers, [as always when using any search engine]. A poorly constructed Search Phrase will give inaccurate, even wrong, answers, so beware. For example, to use a topical example, suppose I want to find out whether the world, or to be more accurate, the Internet, thinks Paraguay will beat Japan in the World Cup or the other way round, I constructed the Search Phrase "Paraguay will beat Japan"; and another Search Phrase using the opposite.

3. In the first instance, "Paraguay will beat Japan", [ http://www.google.com.sg/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Paraguay+will+beat+Japan ], I got 6,200,000 matches whereas for my second search, "Japan will beat Paraguay" [ http://www.google.com.sg/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Japan+will+beat+Paraguay ], I got 22,700,000 matches. Thus, the Internet believes Japan will beat Paraguay, by a ratio of 3.66. Thus, I would bet on Japan winning and if I were to put odds, I would probably put odds of 1:3.66, assuming that the "wisdom of the crowds" is what matters in making such football odds.

4. For writers and journalists who want an instant, fairly accurate answer to practically ANY survey question they may have in mind, this idea is another use of a search engine. Even for the ordinary layman or student, the search engine, so readily at hand, provides an instant answer to many vexing survey questions that they may need an answer to in a hurry. Mind you, this idea already works without any work on the part of the search engine providers. If these search engine providers were to modify their algorithms or add another service for Instant Surveys, the results will be far more accurate and maybe even give the likes of Gallup a run for their money. TV stations and online news publications may want to add a feature to their offerings by posing important [and even frivolous] survey questions and analyse the results for their readers. It will make for interesting reading.


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RH: LKY LHL WKS ELECTION RIGGINGS EMAILED TO ALMOST ENTIRE GOVT:
http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/2010/06/lky-lhl-wks-election-riggings-emailed.html

ME ON VIDEO DESCRIBING lky lhl wks NUMEROUS ELECTION RIGGINGS:
http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/search/label/%22A%20Video%20RH%20on%20LKY%20LHL%20WKS%20cheating%20elections%22

MY ACQUAINTANCE, MR DAVID DUCLOS, A FORMER POLICE INSPECTOR, AND HIS LAWYER FRIEND, EYEWITNESSED LEE KUAN YEW RIGGING THE 1997 CHENG SAN GRC ELECTION. READ MORE AT MY BLOG ENTITLED "I CAME, I SAW, I SOLVED IT" :
http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/

MY ONLINE POLICE REPORT ON LKY LHL WKS CHEATING ELECTIONS:
http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/2009/06/police-report-lee-ky-lhl-wks-cheating_02.html

THE MOST COMPLETE RUBBISHING OF LEEconomics EVER:
http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/2009/06/most-complete-rubbishing-of-leeconomics.html

[ALSO AT THE ABOVE BLOG, LIE KUAN YEW's LIES, CORRUPTION, WRONGFUL JAILING, TORTURE AND BEATING TO DEATH OF INNOCENT POLITICAL PRISONERS LIKE MR CHAN HOCK HUA]

FOR QUICK, IRREVERENT REASONS WHY LIE KY DESERVES A NOBEL:
http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/search/label/Not%20nominated%20for%20a%20Nobel%20so%20LIE%20KY%20gives%20himself%20many%20others

MY ARCHIVE OF WORKS AT:
http://i-came-i-saw-i-wrote-it.blogspot.com/

PHOTOS OF LIE KY SCRATCHING MY WIFE's NEW CAR:
http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/search/label/LIE%20KY%20scratched%20my%20car%20S%242800%20to%20repair

WHY SINGAPORE HAS NO ECONOMY
http://i-came-i-saw-i-solved-it.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-singapore-has-no-economy.html
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