The Verge's weekend editor, Rick Steves, has been unable to explain why bets started appearing in Google News, leading to betting markets related to news events. However, Google has now stated that these results were an error and are no longer appearing. The site was mistakenly linked to bets related to specific news events, with Futurism searching for "will ships transit the strait," and The Guardian and Reuters. Steves also mentioned that Google has partnered with Kalshi and Polymarket to bring their data to Google Finance.