Home Hubdub logo
 
Guest account   Cash: hd$1,000   Predictions: hd$0
You currently have hd$1,000 (Hubdub dollars), Hubdub's play money, to stake on your predictions. Your predictions are currently worth hd$0
Home
Leaderboards
Forums
My Predictions

When Will the Wikia Search Counter break 5,000,000 queries?

Settled as September 2008

It reached 5m in September. http://re.search.wikia.com/index.html

Background:

Go to http://search.wikia.com -- there's a counter for the number of search queries run via the search engine. Right now, it's at about 1.8 million. When will it pass 5 million?


Settlement details: As seen on the Wikia Search blog, http://search.wikia.com/blog/

 
Forecast history, %
   Zoom in

Settled

July 2008
3%
August 2008
16%
September 2008
64%
October 2008
5%
November 2008
2%
December 2008
0%
Sometime in 2009
10%
Activity: H$29,635
Settled as September 2008 on Thu 2nd Oct 6:38am PDT

Suspend date: Fri 1st Aug 12:59am PDT Settlement date: Thu 2nd Oct 6:38am PDT

Initial likelihoods: July 2008: 10%, August 2008: 25%, September 2008: 15%, October 2008: 10%, November 2008: 10%, December 2008: 10%, Sometime in 2009: 20%

Action history:

Created Mon 7th Jul 11:34am PDT by dan121377
Suspended Mon 7th Jul 12:16pm PDT by kruijs[Power User]: Flagged by super user: Questions about "home page tickers" are not allowed according to Section 2.2.5 "Types of question", Question Guidelines & Rules,
http://www.hubdub.com/public/goodquestion
Unsuspended Wed 9th Jul 8:21am PDT by nigeleccles[Admin]: I am happy this counter isn't at all easy to game therefore no requirement to void this question
Suspended Fri 1st Aug 12:59am PDT : Suspend date reached
Settlement requested Thu 2nd Oct 5:35am PDT by matt: it reached 5,000,000 in September...
Settled as 'September 2008' Thu 2nd Oct 6:38am PDT by tomg[Admin]: It reached 5m in September. http://re.search.wikia.com/index.html

Suspend date: Fri 1st Aug 12:59am PDT Settlement date: Thu 2nd Oct 6:38am PDT
more info...

 

Predictions (62)

62 predictions

17 weeks ago
pernod predicted September 2008 (H$100 at 63%)
18 weeks ago
bobdevine predicted October 2008 (H$50 at 5%)
18 weeks ago
bobdevine predicted August 2008 (H$50 at 17%)
18 weeks ago
infernalmachine[Admin] predicted Sometime in 2009 (H$500 at 4%)
18 weeks ago
dan_dum predicted August 2008 (H$50 at 18%)
more

Comments (10)

  1 dieseldog
from the link in settlement details...And of course, you are welcome to game the system by putting all you fake money into “July 2008″ or “August 2008″ and then using Wikia Search as your default search engine, thereby making the counter go up even faster. That way, you’ll win a lot of fake money — and fake money is almost as good as real money! i checked the other link at 13:30 pm EST and it goes up by about 1 per second. jenni your a math wizard. how long will it take to reach 5 millon?
posted 20 weeks ago
  2 dieseldog
*10:30 pm EST
posted 20 weeks ago
  3 destry[Admin]
60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day = 86,400 seconds in a day at 1 result per second is 86,400 a day. Currently at 11:36pm EST there are 2.1 million inquires, meaning 2.9 million to go. 2,900,000 / 86400 = 33.5 days. That equates to August 11th. Now if the pace quickens or slows that is an unknown.
posted 20 weeks ago
  4 destry[Admin]
Now known of those statistics line up with what Wiki says are the current stats.
posted 20 weeks ago
  5 dieseldog
@destry..thanks. now jenni has competion for math wizard :O)
posted 20 weeks ago
  6 destry[Admin]
@dieseldog - jenni or jenster as she hates to be called, will never have any competition, she is in a league all her own. Jenni is the Tiger Woods of Hubdub.
posted 20 weeks ago
Why isn't Nike calling? Or maybe just Dell?? :)
posted 20 weeks ago
  8 cognos[Power User]
That counter has got to be a hoax. While on the page, no http request is made to any site. Yet the counter keeps going up up up! It most likely is a simple javascript incrementor. Any, btw, the search results suck.
posted 20 weeks ago
  9 matt
Not sure if you've seen this but: http://re.search.wikia.com/metrics/queries.html# they have had 3 million queries so far, 2 million to go, 25k per day. I don't think they are going to make it in August!
posted 19 weeks ago
  10 envel
Well, they've corrected their stats. At this time, they're reaching 2.5 million queries. Hmm, I'm sceptical they are going to take 5M in Septeber. We will see.

God with them, I like Wikia and their projects;-)
posted 17 weeks ago

Please log in or join to add a comment

What is Hubdub?

Hubdub makes news more exciting by letting you stake virtual dollars on the outcomes of real running news stories.

Join now   or   learn more