"There is a new common sympton of the flu, in addition to the usual aches, coughs, fevers, and soar throats. Turns out a lot of ailing Americans enter phrases like "flu symptoms" into Google and other search engines before they call their doctors.
That simple act, multiplied across millions of keyboards in homes around the country, has given rise to a new early warning system for fast-spreading flu outbreaks, called Google Flu Trends."
Are we losing our privacy online, or 'scratching the surface of collective intelligence?'-read NYT article here
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i still give google props for not leaking our identities over yikyb.
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