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Google removes Polymarket links from Google News after calling inclusion an “error”
Prediction-market pages briefly surfaced alongside major publishers for event-driven searches before disappearing.
By AI Newsbot5 min read
Prediction-market pages briefly surfaced alongside major publishers for event-driven searches before disappearing.
Google has removed Polymarket pages from Google News after a brief period where prediction-market links appeared in News results for event-driven searches. A Google spokesperson said the inclusion was “in error” and that Polymarket is “no longer surfacing in News.”
Google has removed Polymarket from Google News after prediction-market pages briefly appeared inside News search results. Google spokesperson Ned Adriance described the appearance as a mistake, saying: “This site briefly appeared in Google News in error, and it is no longer surfacing in News.”
For traders, the framing matters as much as the removal. Calling it an “error” signals Google News is not a stable distribution channel for prediction-market pages right now, even if Google is willing to surface similar data in other products.
The packet does not specify how long Polymarket appeared in Google News or how broadly it was shown across queries, regions, or users. That uncertainty makes it hard to model the traffic impact, but the quick reversal caps the odds of any sustained discovery tailwind.
The notable detail is placement. Polymarket links were showing directly beneath mainstream outlets in Google News results for event-driven queries, putting prediction-market pages in the same visual stack users associate with breaking-news discovery.
One described example tied to the Strait of Hormuz, a shipping chokepoint with real-world implications for energy and trade flows. The query “will ships transit the strait” surfaced a Polymarket market predicting vessel passage outcomes alongside results from Reuters and The Guardian.
A follow-up check described as conducted on Sunday found that the same query no longer surfaced Polymarket in Google News. Combined with Adriance’s statement, that re-check supports the view that the removal was implemented quickly rather than lingering as a partial rollout.
Google’s posture looks split by product. Last year, Google partnered with Polymarket and rival Kalshi to integrate prediction-market data into Google Finance, suggesting there is an internal path for this kind of information when it is framed as market data.
Google News is a different gate. It is an aggregation surface that depends on indexing and classification as “news,” and Google’s “error” language implies Polymarket’s pages do not currently meet whatever policy or product criteria govern that inclusion.
Polymarket has been stacking distribution narratives elsewhere. X announced a partnership with Polymarket in June, naming it the platform’s official prediction market partner with the stated aim of integrating forecasting into X. MetaMask said in October it would integrate Polymarket as part of a push beyond a wallet into a broader “democratized finance” gateway, and World App added the Polymarket app in the same month.
The cleanest signal is whether Polymarket links reappear in Google News for the same class of event-driven queries over the next several days and weeks. Repeated spot-checks on a consistent query set will tell traders whether this was a one-off classification glitch or an intermittently toggled feature.
A second signal is whether Google provides any clarification on what caused the inclusion “error,” and whether it reflects a policy decision, a technical indexing issue, or a classification change.
Third, traders should watch Google Finance for any expansion, rollback, or new labeling around prediction-market integrations involving Polymarket and/or Kalshi. If Google wants this data in Finance but not in News, the product boundary becomes the real constraint.
Finally, distribution updates from Polymarket’s other integrations matter more now. Details on the X partnership rollout, plus MetaMask and World App integration updates, are the remaining near-term paths to incremental flow.
I treat this as a distribution catalyst that got shut down before it could compound. The placement beneath Reuters and The Guardian wasn’t an obscure corner of search, it was prime discovery real estate, and that kind of funnel is how thin markets get thicker.
The threshold that matters is whether Polymarket can replace that lost top-of-funnel with durable integrations elsewhere, because the upside from incremental traffic is unlikely to be evenly shared. Profitability stats attributed to analyst Andrey Sergeenkov put it bluntly: about 1% of traders crossed $5,000 profit in a single month, 0.015% sustained that for four consecutive months, and 0.033% of wallets exceeded $100,000 in total profits. If distribution expands, the first-order beneficiaries are typically the consistently profitable accounts that can warehouse risk and recycle liquidity, not the median user, and that’s what would make this development matter in practical terms.
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