We are all familiar with Google.com. But did you know about Google.org?
Google.org is Google’s charity branch working towards all sorts of good causes including renewable energy, improving public services and using technology to predict and prevent possible threats like climate change and pandemics.
It is part of their efforts to track the spread of disease. They have compiled flu trends and track the spread of the flu across the whole world. They have data for lots of countries, like US, Canada, Mexico, most of Europe and even Australia and New Zealand. You can even compare the data for the past years with this year and see how the trends show up.
But here is the most interesting point. All these trends are based on the what search queries people type into Google, just like any other Google trend. So just because the numbers are high doesn’t necessarily mean that many people are actually sick. But Google says they found a consistent reliable co-relation between what people are searching for and the rate at which the flu spreads.
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