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Baidu big winner in World Cup

Firm beats giants with predictions

China's national soccer team failed to make the cut for the 2014 World Cupbut that hasn'tshaken a Chinese tech company's credibility in predicting game results.

Baidu's World Cup prediction service has outscored its major competitors by accuratelypredicting winners 58.3 percent of the timecompared with runnerup Microsoft Bing's 56.2percent.

The Beijing-based company not only correctly chose the four semifinalistsit also predicted thatGermany would win its match with Brazilthough it didn't foresee the 7-score.



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Baidu said that its World Cup prediction model is based ondata from as many as 37,000 matches played by 987 teamsover the past five years.


To improve the accuracy of the modelZhang Tonghead ofthe Beijing Big Data Lab of Baidusaid that the companyalso took into consideration five factorsthe teamsstrength,home advantagerecent game performanceoverall WorldCup performance and bookmaker odds.

Tech companies such as BaiduMicrosoftGoogle andYahooand investment banking firms such as GoldmanSachs and Deutsche Bankall took their chances predicting2014 World Cup games.

Generally speakingtech companies outperformed WallStreet investorsBaidu and Microsoft both correctly chosethe four teams in the semifinalsGoldman Sachs erred inpicking Spain to reach the final fourwhile Deutsche Bankeven predicted that England would win the tournament.

Bryan Wangprincipal analyst with Forrester Researcha multinational technology and marketresearch firmsaid that as a company that processes search requests every dayBaidu enjoysan edge in big data-based prediction.

He said accuracy is based on how much data companies use in building the models. "The moresoccer-related data you put into the modelthe more accuracy you get," he saidadding thataccuracy isn't necessarily equal to a company's capability in big data technology.

Recent media reports said that a soccer-loving girl in Northeast China won more than 3.3 millionyuan ($528,000) from betting on the 2014 World Cup and her secret weapon was Baidu's WorldCup predictions.

But Bi Yajinga soccer fan in Beijing who has spent 1,000 yuan on soccer lotteries during theWorld Cupsaid he never uses such big-data prediction. "There is no fun if you can't vote for yourfavorite teams," he said.

Gao Yuan contributed to this story.


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