 The results hint that there may potentially be a relationship between the economic success of a country and the information-seeking behavior of its citizens captured in big data.Tobias Preis and his colleagues Helen Susannah Moat and H. Eugene Stanley introduced a method to identify online precursors for stock market moves, using trading strategies based on search volume data provided by Google Trends.Their analysis of Google search volume for 98 terms of varying financial relevance, published in "Scientific Reports", suggests that increases in search volume for financially relevant search terms tend to precede large losses in financial markets.