Google Flu Trends
Want to know how bad the flu is in your state? Ask Google!
Google Flu Trends Thermometer
Google Flu Trends uses aggregated data from searches for flu-related terms to estimate the disease’s incidence on a state level. Over the past five years, Google used IP address information from server logs to estimate the geographic location of flu queries, with overall trends compared to data gathered by the CDC. Given the level of correlation from these trial runs and estimates of report lag time due to delays in patients seeking health care and the difficulty of aggregating data from health agencies, Google and the CDC believe that the tool has the potential to identify outbreaks one to two weeks faster than traditional survey methods.
Right now, Google Flu Trends is only tracking the virus in the U.S., according to the newspaper, though it hopes to eventually expand to other countries and diseases.
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