Well, they'll be looking for connections, not convenience. That gives Chicago, Atlanta, Denver and Dallas the upper hand. Is this the one? http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-hq2-could-be-in-washington-dc-heres-the-evidence-2018-3 6000 hits on a news article for DC metro isn't particularly impressive when you consider the size of Amazon's cloud services. Never mind WaPo's likely (and diligent) interest in it and their Bezos ownership. Also, more to the point, secondary sourcing on this doesn't hold up very well. ARLnow.com doesn't offer any citation for the source of, "The vast majority of the traffic to the page over the past week that can be tracked came from what appears to be an internal Amazon.com page devoted to its HQ2 search." (my italics). A skeptics translation of that might read, "The vast majority of traffic (wasn't tracked, but some) was from Amazon associated servers. This, (In the context of their ongoing search, may be) ...er, was, internal and related to the search." Funny aside, it earned them a bump in the WaPo for the article: The Amazon headquarters search mystery has been solved! Or has it? ...so, uh, that might be the real story here. I'd like to see the google analytics for the week after that was published. And beyond that, the WaPo article dates to 2/26, while Businessinnsider is 3/5. The tongue-in-cheek nature of the WaPo article (published in the Business section) would nevertheless have given cover to BizInsider to write about buzz surrounding the move.