Nowcasting with Google Trends.

In 2011, I delivered a keynote address titled 'Predicting the Present with Google Trends' at the annual meeting of the Australian Conference of Economists. Working with my colleague Hyunyoung Choi, that talk turned into a paper that was subsequently published in the June 2012 proceedings of this journal. The paper received over 3000 citations in Google Scholar. This enthusiastic reception encouraged me to continue work with my colleague Steve Scott to develop new tools and new examples which are described in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]