3 outlets·4 reports
Google says that Polymarket bets showing up in Google News was an error, and the prediction market's bets on real world events were not supposed to appear there (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
ThinkingNews Desk · how this was written
Google News has displayed Polymarket bets in its “For you” section and on the homepage. The company has confirmed that the appearance of these bets was an error. Polymarket’s real-world event predictions were not intended to appear in Google News results.
Written from all 3 reports below, not from any single one.
How it was reported
- TechMeme·Google News is showing Polymarket bets alongside news articles in the "For you" section; in tests, Polymarket bets also appeared on the Google News homepage (Frank Landymore/Futurism)
- Engadget·Google has reportedly started to add Polymarket data to News results
- The Verge·Google says Polymarket bets showing up in News was an ‘error’
- TechMeme·Google says that Polymarket bets showing up in Google News was an error, and the prediction market's bets on real world events were not supposed to appear there (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
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