Flu trends for New Zealand – from Google
Posted June 4th, 2009 by peterLove this one.
Google has launched a free website, Flu Trends, that shows how widespread the flu is in the North and South islands each day.
The United States internet giant calculates this by tracking search queries from the public that have been shown to correlate with the actual incidence of flu.
Flu Trends has been available in the US since November and in Mexico since April. New Zealand and Australia are the third and fourth countries to get the service, paid for by Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org.
Google product manager Roni Zeiger said Flu Trends could provide flu information ahead of official data, which could be out of date.
The live graphic data is at: http://www.google.org/flutrends/intl/en_nz/
At this time, the “trend” is low – Check each island by clicking National in the drop down box to the right above the map
Thanks Stuff for bringing it to our attention
2 Responses to “Flu trends for New Zealand – from Google”
June 8th, 2009 at 4:20 am
You can also use Google.com/trends to see what is hot in the market to use the information to promote what demand is high for them.
July 14th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Interesting post. My wife spent some time as an exchange student in NZ while in High School and I’ve become a sort of closet NZ fan. Haven’t yet been, but would love to someday. I’ll have to try the Flu Trends in the US. Thanks – longbeach ca mortgage
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