  Online activity of the Internet users has been repeatedly shown to provide a
rich information set for various research fields. We focus on the job-related
searches on Google and their possible usefulness in the region of the Visegrad
Group -- the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Even for rather
small economies, the online searches of their inhabitants can be successfully
utilized for macroeconomic predictions. Specifically, we study the unemployment
rates and their interconnection to the job-related searches. We show that the
Google searches strongly enhance both nowcasting and forecasting models of the
unemployment rates.
