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Year in Search
Coverage of Year in Search in the Nexus archive.
- Google engineer accused of turning Year in Search secrets into Polymarket payday
A Google engineer in Zurich, Michele Spagnuolo, faces U.S. charges for allegedly exploiting confidential data about Google's 2025 Year in Search to make $2.75 million in Polymarket bets, profiting $1.2 million. The FBI alleges he laundered proceeds via cryptocurrency transactions and decentralized exchanges.