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This paper proposes an empirical similarity approach to forecast weekly volatility by using search engine data as a measure of investors attention to the stock market index. Our model is assumption free with respect to the underlying process of investors attention and significantly outperforms conventional time-series models in an out-of-sample forecasting framework. We find that especially in high-volatility...