"Predicting the Present with Google Trends"?

I was very interested at the research co-authored by Hal Varian and Hyunyoung Choi titled: "Predicting the Present with Google Trends" until I found that the source is Google blog. Now I'm not sure if I'm still reading an unbiased research report or a piece of Google propaganda. Perhaps neither.

It has been said that if you put a million monkeys in front of a million computers, you would eventually produce an accurate economic forecast.

Got to love this quote. Let's wait and see the result.