Google gets the flu.

PositionTHE WEB - Google Flu Trends - Brief article

When Americans think they're coming down with the flu, a lot of them type phrases like "flu symptoms" into search engines before they cart their doctors. Multiplied across millions of Internet users, that simple act has given rise to Google Flu Trends (google.org/flutrends). Google researchers found a strong correlation when they mapped five years of flu-related searches against flu reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Their findings helped Google...

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