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Google Launches 'Flu Trends' to Track Outbreaks for the Feds

By soulxtc

Will track use of certain influenza-related keywords and phrases and notify the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in real time. The power of Google and its search engine is rapidly permeating all aspects of our increasingly online world, and recent news that search queries will be used to monitor and track the outbreak of influenza proves this development. For today, Google has launched a new tool called "Flu Trends" that will track search queries comprised of specific keywords and phrases to identify where influenza outbreaks are occurring, and notify the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in real time. The Google Blog reads: "Our team found that certain aggregated search queries tend to be very common during flu season each year. We compared these aggregated queries against data provided by the U.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on November 11, 2008 (boomark / email).