Google: The Flu Is Coming!

Did you get your influenza shots this season? If not, you might want to consider rushing to your local pharmacy as soon as possible after you see this disturbing chart from Google.org.

The non-profit arm of the search giant's empire has run an experiment every year since 2006 that has been remarkably accurate in predicting cases of flu in the U.S. It tracks sudden spikes in flu-based searches (people looking for flu remedies, for example) and places them on a map.

The results impressed the Centers for Disease Control, now a Google partner, since they tracked CDC data so precisely -- before the CDC data had even been collated or released. Last year, one study called it an effective ear…
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