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Will a Google query for "Outliers" have Gladwell's book 1st on 30 November 2008?

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Background:

Malcom Gladwell's new book "Outliers" is currently at number 4 in the Amazon sales ranking and number two behind the Wikipedia entry on a Google web search.

Gladwell is one of the world most successful authors with previous hits Blink and Tipping Point - "Blink" being the number one Google result at the moment when searching.

The question is, that on the 30th November from 00:00 AM GMT until 23:59 GMT (Google's algorithm doesn't refresh *that* often) will a query for "Outliers" return Gladwell's book on Amazon as the first result?


Settlement details: A query on Google at any time between 00:00 AM GMT and 23:59 GMT on 30th November will return a link to Gladwell's book on Amazon as the first search result.

 
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Yes
80%
No
20%
Voided Thu 20th Nov 2008 3:12pm PST

Suspend date: Sun 30th Nov 2008 3:59pm PST

Initial likelihoods: Yes: 80%

Action history:

Created Thu 20th Nov 2008 8:17am PST by weblivz
Suspended Thu 20th Nov 2008 1:37pm PST by tisha[Admin]: checking question
Voided Thu 20th Nov 2008 3:12pm PST by tisha[Admin]: Unfortunately questions about google seaches are not allowed

Questions should have a clear resolution and not be open to gaming. Questions that have failed this criteria include number of Search engine (e.g. Google, Yahoo, etc.) search results for a certain term (varies by user); whether something will be listed on eBay; home page tickers; and whether a particular picture will appear on a news site's home page.

Suspend date: Sun 30th Nov 2008 3:59pm PST
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  1 weblivz
The query MUST be on the google.com site.
posted 7 weeks ago

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