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Activity on the web can provide more than a snapshot of what people are interested in on a given day. It is also being used, with some success, to predict future stock prices and election results.
Tools such as and track what people are talking or thinking about by recording the frequency with which words are entered into search engines and appear on blog sites. Now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is going a step further, and using the web to make specific predictions. His software, called Condor, has predicted…
