Technology offers some really amazing possibilities nowadays. Today’s edition of The New York Times offers us a very interesting story called “To aid Mexico, Google expands flu tracking”.
Basically, Google has designed a special version of its “flu-tracking service” designed to track down the spread of the now sadly famous swine flu. The idea is that the service counts and tracks where people are “googl-ing” for information related to the swine flu and influenza. However, because there is no historical record of the searches people have made in the past, the service is not exactly perfect or scientific (supposing the simple fact that a person looks up the term is scientific…).
I thought this article was interesting because it really illustrates how technology and the Internet offer a plethora of uses, there is just a need for a little creativity.
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