As I woke up sniffing and sneezing this morning, I had the fear. You know the one. The one where you start thinking:
“Oh no, not me too. I can’t be sick. I don’t have time to be sick.”
Has the flu hit your household yet?
Check out Google’s Flu Trends to see where the flu is in your area. Google uses search activity to determine trends in specific geographic location.
According to Google:
“We have found a close relationship between how many people search for flu-related topics and how many people actually have flu symptoms. Of course, not every person who searches for “flu” is actually sick, but a pattern emerges when all the flu-related search queries are added together. We compared our query counts with traditional flu surveillance systems and found that many search queries tend to be popular exactly when flu season is happening. By counting how often we see these search queries, we can estimate how much flu is circulating in different countries and regions around the world.” Source: http://www.google.org/flutrends/about/how.html
Explore Google.org’s Flu Trends and let me know your thoughts.
Tags: Analytics, flu, Google, Google Trends
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