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Google Fights Flu with Search Data

Leave it to Google to come up with a way to help combat the spread of disease with nothing more than some search terms and an armada of computers. The folks at the Google Predict and Prevent team discovered, using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), that there was a direct correlation between searches for flu related terms and symptoms. The CDC already collects data ...