Hacking Google Trends for Machine Learning

Google Trends has been used and abused since 2004. It's a powerful, half-baked tool provided by Google which provides search result trends. Given the recent surge of altcoins, such as Dogecoin, we wanted to be able to predict the next altcoin price rally.

Easy? No problem? Not quite.

Google Trends only gives a number between 0 and 100 and historical data completely changes when it hits a new peak of searches. This makes it really difficult to train a machine learning model. It also explains why nobody uses Google Trends for predicting cryptos, stock prices or frankly anything.

After many double espressos, IP blockages and endless hours plugging away at code. We've managed to build a correction algorithm for Google Trends, which allows historical data to be consistent with a real time prediction.

Checkout our blog article - https://edgebase.io/blogposts/Gaining_An_Edge_With_Google_Trends.html