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Subject: Searching for the Future - Yahoo Tech Buzz Game

Search Engine Marketing, BY Chris Sherman | February 22, 2006

Think you're pretty good at sussing out the future? Try matching wits with Yahoo! Research's fantasy prediction game that lets you bet for -- or against -- emerging technologies and trends.

The Tech Buzz Game is an intriguing offering that lets you and others predict the technologies people will search the Web for in the future. How? By buying or selling fantasy stocks that reflect a mix of companies, products, and technologies in innovative areas.

The game is a collaboration between Yahoo! Research and tech publisher O'Reilly. The markets and stocks reflect O'Reilly's picks of "important, emerging, intriguing, and disruptive forces in the technology world."

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