Google to map inflation using web data

We need third party verification of the Consumer Price Index and Google's just the group to give it to us. Maybe next up they'll tackle unemployment numbers?

Personally, i'll be more interested in having this kind of data publicly accessible like they do with other dataset on google's publicdata.

It will be interesting to see if they can escape Goodhart's law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodharts_law