Topic: Google Flu Trends

Google Flu Trends Wildly Overestimated This Year's Flu Outbreak

Google / AP

Scientific hindsight shows that Google Flu Trends far overstated this year's flu season, raising questions about the accuracy of using a search engine, which Google and the media hyped as an efficient public health tool,  to accurately monitor the flu. 

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