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Want to know what the most popular movies, albums, and video games are?

Ask the Internet. But don't Google it. Check what other people googled.

That's the theory behind Google flu trends, which crunches search data to forecast flu prevalence,

with admittedly mixed results.

Nevertheless, researchers have applied the idea to the stock market.

They found that when searches related to business and politics go up, the market tends to take a dive.

Queries for words like election, Senate, and CEO are predictive of the downward trend,

but not terms like church, earthquake, and geometry.

Why the correlation? The researchers say investors in the public may be more likely to search

for information on business and government when they're concerned about the economy. And if

confidence in the economy drops, so might stock prices. The findings appear in the proceedings of the National Academy

of Sciences. Over time, the correlation weakened, a sign that traders may already be using

internet search data in automated trading algorithms. Generally speaking, if an opportunity like this

is known, then the effect will diminish. And that's what we think we're seeing

in the data that we looked at from 2004 to 2012.

Lead author Chester Kerm, a research fellow at the Warwick Business School. And before you

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