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		ntoshev on May 25, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Correlate If you upload stock market data, you could see if there are searches that strongly predict certain stocks.

Symmetry on May 25, 2011 | [–]

Well, it works well with unemployment at least: http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/05/25/mining-for-correlatio...

SoftwareMaven on May 25, 2011 | [–]

I don't know that predict is accurate. Correlate is probably more accurate. Is correlation sufficient to profit in the market? I have no idea.

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