Google will help monitor the swine flu
October 10, 2009 – 4:00 pmGoogle Inc. launched a new service in Russia, helping almost in real time to assess the prevalence of swine influenza, – Google Flu Trends (GFT).
Service-oriented as the organization health, and at ordinary Web users wishing to keep abreast of the latest news about a new virus.
Press office of the company informs that the new service is based on aggregate data “Statistics Search Google» and relies on the company discovered the relationship between the number of users seeking relevant information to the swine influenza, and the number of cases.
«Certainly, not every user who enters the query” flu “is actually sick, but when combining all search queries related to influenza, you can get a single picture, “- say the authors of the project. To obtain a more accurate picture of user queries are compared with data obtained from the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
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