DIGIT-ARC read-only archive · snapshot: July 23, 2026

Google Launches Future Search - gDay

21 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/google-launches-future-search-gday.84045/

DigitalDude
DigitalDude Original post #1
Apr 1, 2008 at 7:06 AM
Google Launches Future Search

*www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/gday.jpg
Google Australia launched Gday*i.ixnp.com/images/v3.23/t.gif today, a new search engine that allows users to search a day in advance of real time:
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.

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!

To rank these future pages in order of relevance, gDay™ uses a statistical extrapolation of a page’s future PageRank, called SageRank.
​
The technology behind Gday is called Mate, which stands for Machine Automated Temporal Extrapolation.

Source: TechCrunch gDay

:lol: :D >>>> Happy April Fools Day <<<< :D :lol:
s18000rpm
Apr 1, 2008 at 8:02 AM
take the "D" out of "gDay", thats what it is :p


no offence to them...;)
kalpik
kalpik #3
Apr 1, 2008 at 8:04 AM
Heh.. I thought so.. Google.. :p
NucleusKore
Apr 1, 2008 at 8:25 AM
Wonder how useful will it be
ray|raven
Apr 1, 2008 at 8:32 AM
^Nice one from google. :p
blueshift
Apr 1, 2008 at 8:37 AM
This is unique.
DigitalDude
Apr 1, 2008 at 8:41 AM
Read the FAQ ;) *www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/faq.html




_
ray|raven
Apr 1, 2008 at 8:47 AM
^Lolz,Funny.
Google makes the best April Day jokes ;)
sachin_kothari
Apr 1, 2008 at 8:50 AM
i knew it was some april fool joke.
i expected something from google as last time they came with google paper.
blueshift
blueshift #10
Apr 1, 2008 at 9:12 AM
This is funny.
Q: Why is this section titled "frequently asked questions", when the product is barely released?
A: We used gDay™ to work out the questions that people would ask.
abhinandh
abhinandh #11
Apr 1, 2008 at 9:15 AM
*www.v-rodforums.com/forums/images/smilies/rofl3.gif
nice one from google!!!!
anand1
anand1 #12
Apr 1, 2008 at 9:16 AM
Things to rely on is Prediction! Its too bad. No one can ko what to happen in future.Mr Google...!
nileshgr
nileshgr #13
Apr 1, 2008 at 9:43 AM
OOOOOOO


THIS IS A APRIL FOOL JOKE --- *www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/policies.html
​
DigitalDude
Apr 1, 2008 at 11:13 AM
^^^^
thanks captain obvious :p



p.s. 'an April fool joke' ;)


_
nvidia
nvidia #15
Apr 1, 2008 at 11:19 AM
rofl... Nice...
Q: How accurate is gDay™? A: Anywhere between 75% and 95%. It depends on the website in question and the day of the week (for example, our spiders don’t work Sundays).
din
din #16
Apr 1, 2008 at 11:41 AM
Was expecting something from google (as always) today but never thought they will make something like this (again as always - innovative ideas lol)

:D
DigitalDude
Apr 1, 2008 at 12:27 PM
Lol More Google April Fool's Jokes hehe


Gmail Custom Time

*mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/images/screenshot.gif

*mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html


Google Virgle - The Adventure of Many Lifetimes

*www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/virgle.jpg

*www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/virgle2.jpg


*googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/announcing-project-virgle.html

*www.google.com/virgle/index.html



:lol: it must be uber cool to work in Google :D :p



Also Youtube RickRoll's its users :D

*www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/rickroll.jpg

*www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/rickroll1.jpg

If you aren’t familiar with RickRolling - it’s when someone puts a link on website to something, but it actually takes you to a music video of Rick Astley’s “hit” song Never Gonna Give You Up.

YouTube is RickRolling its own users on April 1. All of the featured videos for YouTube UK and YouTube Australia actually link to the Rick Astley video. We’ll see if YouTube.com does the same at midnight EST tonight, too.

This is ok, but not nearly as funny as it would be if the YouTube team broke into the Google search servers and simply redirected Google.com to the video. Now that would be funny.

More coverage of this here.


*www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/youtube-rickrolls-users/



lets see what all they come up with still :p ;)



_
nvidia
nvidia #18
Apr 1, 2008 at 1:09 PM
This was done last year - Googlt TiSP(Toilet Internet Service Provider):lol::)):))
DigitalDude
Apr 1, 2008 at 4:50 PM
:lol: More Google April Fool Madness

Google Wake Up Kit

*www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/googwakeup.jpg

*www.google.com/googlecalendar/new_wakeup.html (loong page)



Build Your Very Own Google Airplane


*www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/googairplane.jpg
If you create a new document in Google Docs*i.ixnp.com/images/v3.23/t.gif, you’ll see a number of options in the “File” pull down menu. One of those options, which as far as I can tell wasn’t there yesterday, is “New airplane.” It’s right there after “New document.”

Choosing it opens a new file with folding instructions to build a paper airplane.

Why? Dunno. This is strange even for Google. Even on April Fools.
First reader to print it out, fold it properly, video it actually flying, upload the video on YouTube or any other video sharing service and post a link in the comments below gets a 2GB iPod Shuffle*i.ixnp.com/images/v3.23/t.gif in the color of your choice. And we’ll give a second one to whoever can get the most distance from their plane (this is going to be somewhat subjective, I’ll make the final decision) (this is always entertaining). Thanks for the tip, Jonathan Chard. The pdf of the image is here.

*www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/googair2.jpg


As you can see from above, Micheal held a competition for actually making the plane and posting the video of the flying paper plane in youtube :p

see a few videos lol:

*www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_or2Drncy8 *
*qik.com/video/46582 *
*www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOWDdIKIeY0, *www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu6R1NW72Ek (same guy) *
*www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZmUaFBCoa0
*video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6322693593057444846&hl=en *

*www.youtube.com/v/gCKwPxNhWAQ

videos marked with * got a iPod Shuffle as prize :D ;) :p


Source: TechCrunch
_
DigitalDude
Apr 1, 2008 at 11:09 PM
lol Google Books Sniff and Scratch

*books.google.com/bkshp?hl=en&tab=gp

hehe

_
skeletor
skeletor #21
Apr 1, 2008 at 11:21 PM
Last time, that Gmail Paper joke was damn funny.....:lol:
My friend gave me a call that we can get printed mails from Google for free......:lol: