{"slug": "google-engineer-accused-of-turning-year-in-search-secrets-into-polymarket-payday", "title": "Google engineer accused of turning Year in Search secrets into Polymarket payday", "summary": "Federal prosecutors accused a Google engineer of using confidential Year in Search trend data to place profitable bets on the prediction market Polymarket, netting approximately $1.2 million. The insider allegedly exploited non-public search volume information to gain an unfair advantage in wagers tied to the annual report's findings. 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