Google flu outbreak Service
February 24th, 2010
Can flu most likely exhibited by google? What is google flu? Google flu is a service available from Google Trends. Google tracks the frequency that searches were made for terms like flu symptoms in different areas around the world. They then used official data that tracks flu outbreaks. What was remarkable from this experiment is that the Google data was able to pick up a flu outbreak in an area up to two week before the official data picked it up. So you can now monitor for flu outbreaks using Google flu. For Google, it is considered a net service.
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