Google Flu Trends One More Cool Service From Google

One more cool service from google;
The official Google Blog introduced Google Flu Trends, an interesting tool that might change the way infectious diseases are monitored these days. It say”
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.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and we found that there’s a very close relationship between the frequency of these search queries and the number of people who are experiencing flu-like symptoms each week. As a result, if we tally each day’s flu-related search queries, we can estimate how many people have a flu-like illness. Based on this discovery, we have launched Google Flu Trends, where you can find up-to-date influenza-related activity estimates for each of the 50 states in the U.S. flu trends, google flu trends, google flu, flu trend, flu


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What information is provided by Google Flu Trends?
We provide up-to-date estimates of flu activity in the United States based on aggregated search queries. Data can be viewed on the Flu Trends website or downloaded as a CSV file for analysis.
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