"Google puts flu tracker to work on swine flu"

Well, lately swine flu has been threatening everyone. Today (April 29, 2009) Google said that it "saw a spike in searches for information about flu among people in Mexico last week even before news of the outbreak became widely known." Google found it by tracking information submitted through people’s searches - those who were sick were looking for the same type of information about the disease. Such results are generated by  U.S. Google Flu tool launched last fall. In the future such tool or any other similar can help predict outbreaks before they become widely spread. 

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