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Google Flu Trends

Via the New York Times, Google Uses Web Searches to Track Flu’s Spread.

That simple act [of searching for phrases like “flu symptoms” in Google], multiplied across millions of keyboards in homes around the country, has given rise to a new early warning system for fast-spreading flu outbreaks, called Google Flu Trends.

Those genius Google peeps. Wow again.

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