Google Flu Trends: A Glimpse into the Future of Google Health

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Google Flu Trends: A Glimpse into the Future of Google Health

It stands to reason that people who are "starting to come down with something" often take the opportunity to search for information on what ails them, even before they discuss their symptoms with a healthcare professional. Who gets more of those searches than anyone? Google, of course. When Google started looking more closely at anonymous aggregate searches for "flu symptoms" and the like, they discovered that - after cross-referencing that data against information from the C

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