Re: [nukkad] [Info] Yahoo Research

["Harshal Chhaya" <>]

Pravin wrote:
> sorry, but i did not understand the concept at all

The short description is full of buzzwords and jargon and is difficult
to understand.

Basically, they have created a fantasy stock market where the
participants can buy/sell shares in technologies as if they were
publicly traded companies. If more people search for that technology
on Yahoo!, the stock price goes up. The idea is to use a stock market
model to identify which technologies will be popular in the future.

The details on http://buzz.research.yahoo.com/dm/info/help.html
explain things a little
more clearly. For example it says:
===
The Game is divided into separate markets. Each market pits a handful
of rival technologies against one another. For example, the Browser
Wars (BROWSER2) market includes Internet Explorer and Mozilla. Think
Mozilla Firefox is going to blow the doors off Internet Explorer soon?
Then buy stock in Mozilla. Be warned: If everyone else in the market
agrees with you, the current Mozilla price may already be too high.
Each market is a separate zero-sum game, where each player's profits
are exactly balanced by the other players' losses.
===

It does sound pretty interesting.

- Harshal


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