Google tracks the flu
Jan 5th, 2009 | By Greg | Category: Google-related, Search Engines, Woo the seekers (SEO)
Google never ceases to amaze me.
Knowing the importance of curbing the spread of the flu, the folks at Google have come up with this Flu Tracking page.
The way it works, apparently, is that as millions of users around the world search for health information online every week, Google tracks flu-related searches.
The folks at Google say that they’ve found a close relationship between how many people search for flu-related topics and how many people actually have flu symptoms.
They actually do something similar for allergies, for sunburns, and other trends.
