Google Flu Trends
By: Lyle FearnleyPosted in avian flu, early warning systems, information technology, surveillance on November 11th, 2008
An article in today’s New York Time’s announces the release of Google Flu Trends, a tool developed by the philanthropy wing Google.org. Google Flu Trends tracks a specified set of search terms for “ebbs and flows”, broken down geographically by regions and states. Monitored search terms include “flu symptoms” and “muscle aches” (A complete list of monitored terms does not seem to be publicly available, perhaps because of the possibility of manipulation). Read the rest of this entry »