Napkin summary: It searches the web for information on future events. Not magical but still interesting.

I wonder if there will come a day when financial investors can not do without this type of tool.

Ever since Google became big, I've always assumed that they must have the ability to beat the market ever day because they have access to queries, click trails, and web publications.

That's a really interesting use for searches. Seems decently well designed, too.

Given that you can search by day, week, month, etc within Google, and even see charts of hits, it'd make sense that they want to allow searches for future dates too. I'd imagine that, if they developed their own, they might be fighting a patent case really quickly. It's probably to cover their asses and get a jump-start at the same time.

Google once did an April fools, in Australia. http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/index.html

Perhaps they'll be able to implement it for real?

So lastly posted on HN picture of time traveler was a guy from google...? :)

Google has so much money that I can believe in anything...

I wonder if this is going to be a paid subscription service, or open? I can't decide which route would best relate to "Do No Evil"