A pseudonymous trader, known only as AlphaRaccoon, on prediction market Polymarket has drawn sharp scrutiny after reportedly turning a $1.15 million profit in under 24 hours by betting on Google’s 2025 Year in Search rankings. The positions covered niche questions, such as whether the singer d4vd would top the list or if Pope Leo XIV would crack the top five. Blockchain records show the bets landed just before Google published the data related to these markets for the first time.

Notably, these were not the only Google-related bets in AlphaRacoon’s history. Months earlier, in November 2025, the user pocketed over $150,000 by nailing the exact launch day of Google’s Gemini 3.0 AI model; however, the bet regarding the specific release date of Gemini 3.0 was not nearly as asymmetric as some

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