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title: Google markets
date: "2005-09-22T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 547
description: I'm looking at how Google uses internal prediction markets to leverage the wisdom of crowds. By letting employees trade on project outcomes, they gather more accurate forecasts than traditional top-down management estimates.
keywords: [google, prediction markets, wisdom of crowds, internal forecasting, collective intelligence]
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[Google markets](http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/putting-crowd-wisdom-to-work.html). It's not a new Google service. Just Google "putting the wisdom of crowds to work" by using online markets.