Polymarket betting markets reportedly appeared within Google News results alongside well-known news publishers before disappearing.

A Google spokesperson told The Verge that the platform’s appearance in the news was a mistake. “This site briefly appeared in Google News by mistake, and is no longer appearing in the news,” company spokesman Ned Adrians said.

Before the removal, Polymarket links would appear directly below the main ports when users were searching event-based queries. In one example cited by Futurism, a search for “ships will transit the strait” related to the Strait of Hormuz turned up a polymarket predicting outcomes related to ship passage alongside reports from Reuters and The Guardian.

In a search on Sunday by Cointelegraph, the same query returned no results from PolyMarket.

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Polymarket and Kalshi are seeking media partnerships

Last year, Google partnered with both Polymarket and competitor Kalshi to integrate its data into Google Finance.

In June, Elon Musk’s X also announced a partnership with Polymarket, calling it its official prediction market partner. The deal aims to integrate the betting-based prediction service into the social media platform.

Furthermore, in October, MetaMask said it would integrate Polymarket as part of its push to expand beyond cryptocurrency wallets into a broader “democratized finance” portal. In the same month, World App, the digital wallet and identity platform from Sam Altman’s World project, also added the Polymarket app.

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A small portion of Polymarket traders make a profit

As Cointelegraph reported, only a small portion of Polymarket traders have been able to achieve consistent, high monthly income, according to new data shared by cryptocurrency analyst Andrey Sergeenkov. While about 1% of traders have exceeded $5,000 in profits in one month, only 0.015% have managed to maintain this level for four consecutive months.

The results also show that only 0.033% of portfolios exceeded $100,000 in total profits, some of which likely belonged to professional traders rather than retail users. Despite the growing hype around prediction markets as a use case for rapidly rising cryptocurrencies, data suggests that most participants struggle to maintain consistent profitability over time.

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