Google says Polymarket bets appearing in the news was a ‘mistake’

Polymarket bets have begun Featured in Google News Along with legitimate news articles. But those results have not appeared now, and Google says they were never supposed to appear. Spokesman Ned Adrians said Edge “Google News is designed to show sources who create content around important current issues, events, and topics, and we have policies for sites to be eligible to appear. This site briefly appeared in Google News by mistake, and no longer appears in News.”

The links led directly to betting markets linked to specific news events. For example, before removing results, Futurism I searched “Will ships pass through the strait” (Strait of Hormuz), and under reliable sources such as The Guardian and Reuters Polymarket’s bet was on the exact number of ships that would be allowed through.

Initially, there was speculation that Google might be testing Polymarket Scores as part of an integration with the service. It was a polymarket and everything strongly Follow up partnerships with Journalists and News outletsuntil The lesser known ones. It’s not clear how Polymarket ended up in Google News results, or exactly when it started. Although reports appear Social media Early January.

Google has already partnered with both Kalshi and Polymarket to bring their data to… Google Finance. It is unclear whether this deal and the results reported in Google News are related in any way. We’ve reached out to Google for additional information.