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German secret service has voiced doubts about the usefulness of Google Trends to prove Russian involvement in such attacks. Please see the comment from @Saleh below.
Notably, there is no proof that Russia is not behind such attacks either. It's just that using Google Trends to prove this theory is not the way to go.
(I will leave this post up but I'd like to urge you not to submit further articles on this topic.)
Surprising nobody. I'm convinced that Russia is using criminal gangs to create chaos in pretty much every country in Europe. If I had my way those gangs would face terrorism charges as well as the regular ones, if a link could be proven.
This is likely a completely fabricated story by a marketing guy, who used gullible ZDF journalists for free exposure. He refers to himself as "Internet-Profiler" but is "Director Digital Strategy Consulting" of a digital marketing company called "cyberpromote". He has no credentials in Forensics and the company normally provides search engine optimization.
The BND, Germanys exterior intelligence, has voiced skepticism towards the claims and method used by the self proclaimed "expert". The BND could reproduce similiar "search queries" for other nations too, because google does not give the exact results, but rather related results. Also no other expert was asked about this by the ZDF journalists. They solely rely on the single claims of a single person, who likely uses this as free marketing.
Deepl:
However, security authorities doubt the informative value of the search: the results of the trend analysis do not refer to the number of searches actually carried out in a selected region and at a selected time, but to random samples and the probabilities calculated from them. ‘The exact terms entered are not necessarily analysed, but also word stems or even just individual words in the query,’ said the BND spokesperson.
Trend analyses with search volumes that are too small result in so-called artefacts due to the algorithms, which are not designed for this type of use. ‘The supposed correlation with these artefacts and a reference to Russia can also be reproduced for numerous other countries, which makes an attribution to Russia appear less plausible,’ it said.
In addition, anonymising VPN use is not reliably taken into account by Google Trends. ‘Search queries therefore allow only limited or no conclusions to be drawn about the actual location of the user,’ said the BND spokesperson, referring to the suspected Russian connection.
Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
I strongly recommend not to rush into a conspiracy theory that was most likely sawn by a person with financial interest. We already saw where this leads to during the COVID pandemic.
Nothing official, maybe just conspiracy theories but two weeks a go 5 people got stabbed in Amsterdam (more on that: https://nltimes.nl/2025/04/01/terrorism-formally-suspected-amsterdam-stabbing-attack-left-five-wounded).
The Dutch government does consider it a terrorist attack, but says nothing about whether he acted alone or in connection to a group. These facts however make the the heads of some people spin.
And maybe a coincidence, maybe not
Be careful what you choose to believe though, this could well happen to be someone who is traumatized by war.
regardless of this particular story, can we stop with the "hybrid war" bullshit? it's just war. Russia is at war with us. act accordingly.
Go read what Russians have said about hybrid warfare stretching back 20 years. Anything to destabilize perceived enemies are seen as legitimate.
Another story without a shred of evidence.
Pathetic at this point.
https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/deutschland/anschlaege-deutschland-russland-hinweise-100.html
You tell me how someone from Russia googled the exact location of event paired with full name of offender days BEFORE the event happening.
This is a clear indication into Russia's direction but it is especially evidence that the whole thing was intended by a third party
The whole claim comes from a single marketing guy, who did some google analytics. The German exterior intelligence BND has voiced skepticism as google analytics do not provide exact results of exact queries at specific dates and the same can be reproduced for other countries easily.
Deepl:
However, security authorities doubt the informative value of the search: the results of the trend analysis do not refer to the number of searches actually carried out in a selected region and at a selected time, but to random samples and the probabilities calculated from them. ‘The exact terms entered are not necessarily analysed, but also word stems or even just individual words in the query,’ said the BND spokesperson.
Trend analyses with search volumes that are too small result in so-called artefacts due to the algorithms, which are not designed for this type of use. ‘The supposed correlation with these artefacts and a reference to Russia can also be reproduced for numerous other countries, which makes an attribution to Russia appear less plausible,’ it said.
In addition, anonymising VPN use is not reliably taken into account by Google Trends. ‘Search queries therefore allow only limited or no conclusions to be drawn about the actual location of the user,’ said the BND spokesperson, referring to the suspected Russian connection.
Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
I strongly recommend not to rush into a conspiracy theory that was most likely sawn by a person with financial interest. We already saw where this leads to during the COVID pandemic.
You claim I didn't choose my words wisely, but you misread it seems. I said it's an indication that Russians gov is involved . evidence for staging though
Adding the adjective "clear" before "indication" does change the meaning of that word quite a bit. A "clear indication" is essentially "almost a proof". Also, I don't understand why you claim that likely artifact-afflicted Google Trends data is "evidence" for the staging of the attacks. It may just be evidence of nothing.