Using Google Auto Suggestions to Predict M&A Activity

7 pointsmatthodan3 comments

Has anyone noticed if you can get insights into secret events (like M&A deals) by searching for a company name + "buys" or "sells" and checking what comes up in Google's auto suggest?

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I suspect this wouldn't work for well-covered companies, but for less well-covered companies (e.g. investment funds), it seems possible.

I think that in this case the event will be not "secret".

No you can't, the search volume wouldn't be sufficient for Google to use it in their auto-suggest algorithm

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