Interesting application of wisdom-of-the-crowd intelligence

Accordingly to the article linked above, there is actually some collective intelligence in the internet to be gathered from the so-called “wisdom-of-the-crowd”.
Actually, I start thinking: what would happen if there was a better way to tap in real-time into what people are searching on Google? Probably it would be possible to predict stock-market fluctuations, that would not be that hard…

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