Saturday, 15 January 2011

A BLACK SWAN?

Author Nassim Taleb, in his book, “ Black Swan “, describes a black swan as an extremely rare event but still possible.

Search engines

·      giving the same rank ( position in search results )

·      to the same website

·      for the same search-term ( and a long / generic too )

is an example of such a rare event.

But it did happen this afternoon ( Jan 13, 2011 ) when Google and Yahoo and Bing, all placed


at position  # 3, upon entering search-term


Can someone calculate the probability and record feedback at
  

Hemen  Parekh

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