Entries Tagged as ‘Google’

April 30, 2009

Google Mapping Swine Flu Outbreak

The intelligence behind Google never seems to fail. At first word of the Swine Flu in Mexico, Google began to monitor all searches pertinent to the illness, terms such as “flu symptoms” “body aches” “thermometers”, along with others. Their findings were quite compelling, plotting the geographic locations of the search inquiries and showing a densely [...]