RE: Keep on Googlin'

What I find really interesting is the search engine "voyeur" websites (they let you see in near real time what are the search queries for all the current users-- in other words, what everyone else is seacrching for); google does not AFAIK offer such a page. Other search engines do, however.

 

I am about to try to write a bot that will sample these voyeur pages on a very frequent basis and then search other people's queries for references to publicly traded companies/stocks.

 

This should in theory tell me if there is a rise in interest in a stock.

 

I recently wrote a perl script/java applet that dealt with a similar concept (see www.geocities.com/~uhdseniorproject/  ).