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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by jonas21 on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @02:22PM (#20688756)
I'm pretty sure they have partnerships with the major stock and currency exchanges, pro sports leagues, and weather.com to get that data.

EDIT: added some sources (sorry, that's the best I could dig up in 5 minutes)

[1] https://www.google.com/googlefinance/disclaimer/

[2] https://searchengineland.com/google-now-with-real-time-nhl-h...

[3] https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/ibm-scores-a-weath...

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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:36PM (#20689434)
US weather data is available for free from NOAA as long as the API isn't abused. Everybody else is just reselling the same data anyway.
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