Comments on: Judging the Economy via Search Volumes http://www.where-does-it-go.com/finance/mortgages-finance/judging-the-economy-via-search-volumes/49 Keeping tabs on personal finance £1 at a time Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:33:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Robert Brown http://www.where-does-it-go.com/finance/mortgages-finance/judging-the-economy-via-search-volumes/49/comment-page-1#comment-79 Robert Brown Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:24:58 +0000 http://www.where-does-it-go.com/finance/mortgages-finance/judging-the-economy-via-search-volumes/49#comment-79 <a href="http://finance.google.com/finance" rel="nofollow">Google Finance</a> looks like a good resource, although no RSS feeds I can see? I was wondering if an alternative service which let you take an RSS, then work with it via a RSS aggrgator like <a href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/" rel="nofollow">Yahoo Pipes</a> would help with this, linked to maybe Technorati feeds showing mentions/trends? (an example here for <a href="http://technorati.com/search/Tesco?authority=n&language=n" rel="nofollow">Tesco</a>) Google Finance looks like a good resource, although no RSS feeds I can see?

I was wondering if an alternative service which let you take an RSS, then work with it via a RSS aggrgator like Yahoo Pipes would help with this, linked to maybe Technorati feeds showing mentions/trends? (an example here for Tesco)

]]> By: Rob Lewis http://www.where-does-it-go.com/finance/mortgages-finance/judging-the-economy-via-search-volumes/49/comment-page-1#comment-78 Rob Lewis Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:37:35 +0000 http://www.where-does-it-go.com/finance/mortgages-finance/judging-the-economy-via-search-volumes/49#comment-78 I know that this sort of data has previously been used to predict the outcome of big votes (such as general elections, X Factor winners etc) so there's got to be something in it, although I suspect those have more defined result, which makes it easier to track. Google Finance might be a good place to start, as they plot blog and news article on share price graphs - it might be worth looking at lesser known shares and finding those with most linked blog or news posts - that might point towards a possible movement upwards? Any thoughts? I know that this sort of data has previously been used to predict the outcome of big votes (such as general elections, X Factor winners etc) so there’s got to be something in it, although I suspect those have more defined result, which makes it easier to track.

Google Finance might be a good place to start, as they plot blog and news article on share price graphs – it might be worth looking at lesser known shares and finding those with most linked blog or news posts – that might point towards a possible movement upwards? Any thoughts?

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