PPX: GOOGL Closes

Alexa? Are you kidding?

Does any body else find it odd that a Yahoo based reaserch group was used to confirm this stock.

Alexa?

Yes, Alexa! It was the source specified in the proposition. Technically, the prop was not will Google pass Yahoo, but will Google pass Yahoo in Alexa's daily-reach metric. The chart was available all along and I checked it often. Google did not pass Yahoo for even one day, although in early December it was close. I never understood why the price was so high.

I knew I should have shorted it! All the other google stocks are doing really well, though. It is an amazing company that will definitely reshape information tech

Another thing is that Alexa's web stats tracking toolbar only runs on IE and not Firefox. If FFX was supported then Google would pass Yahoo due to the default search and homepage in FFX which are both by Google.

Even if FFX were supported by Alexa, the proposition was still confined to the metrics used by a single source. PPXKingOfTheHill points out the importance of the wording of the proposition--however, traders' perceptions of the proposition must necessarily influence their beliefs, which in turn will influence their trading behavior. The idea behind this market, furthermore, is to aggregate information that all traders--read: interested, rational parties--have about the likelihood that a given proposition will obtain. Of course, even if we note in retrospect that Alexa might not be a truly impartial source (hence PPXK.O.T.H.'s confusion at the high trading price), the high price indicates that the traders who opted in to buying the futures believed that Google stands a chance of being #1; how the involved traders reached their conclusions is another matter. Lesson learned: maybe we should take bets on what constitutes an impartial metric before we start trading. I would point out, however, that nobody seemed so keen to up the ante even toward the end of the proposition's time horizon. Also note, Alexa reported that Google still lagged right up toward the end of the year. The results of the market are probabilistic; we as traders never did believe with absolute assurance that the proposition would obtain.

While i haven't used google to it's fullest i have to say Yahoo! is probably more popular because it has an email system and a way for people to sign up, making it the homepage of those people who use the mail system.

Yahoo does have an e-mail system, but so does Google. It's called gmail, and with a gmail account you can create your own homepage using iGoogle, which is what I use. I guess it just isn't as popular as Yahoo Mail, if infact these are the deciding factors on why Yahoo surpasses Google.

YYEARRRRRRGH

YYEARRRRRRGH

I still support Google, no matter how many idiots like Yahoo. Google is far better. Alexa runs only on Internet Explorer, and I use Firefox, so isn't that a bit unfair? Not just a bit. A lot. Lots of people use Firefox. Now they just had to close the GOOGL.

I'm so surprised so many people were shocked by this. I favored yahoo and always have, but it wasn't hard to see who the winner would be based on the wording. Yahoo only had to be up on the one day. While it was tied and I think even passed once by goggle, the wording made all the difference and made for good profit :D

google should have won, thier search is much better and the services they offer are more intuitive. yahoo just plain sucks. it turns up things not even related to the keywords!!! google has much better coding in thier search algorithyms and logorythyms, so turns up more relevant things. and google even offers more services than yahoo.(open source community, groups, mail, feeds, homepage, search engine, labs and beta, maps, earth, goog411, mobile apps for your cell,...). come on, it was rigged! the whole site is practically rigged! the stats collector is run by yahoo, this site is american and supports vista; which is microsoft, which owns yahoo, who is in competition with google for so many things on the ppx it is almost obsessive. google wins because open source wins. period, end of statement. no if's and's or buts'! no company that is closed source and for profit will ever succeed. not even microsoft. vista is an abhorration of code. it is the worst thing since windows95!!

I don't think so. They should include Firefox. I use it as much as I can.
Yahoo sorta sucks.