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ihurt
November 11th, 2008, 03:55 PM
No link but there is a siren

:scratch :idunno
BornAgain123
November 11th, 2008, 03:56 PM
Don't even understand Drudge's title myself.:scratch
ihurt
November 11th, 2008, 03:57 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/technology/internet/12flu.html?hp

Google Uses Searches to Track Flu’s Spread

Could this be it? Why a siren??
ihurt
November 11th, 2008, 03:58 PM
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashgof.htm

finally a link...

GOOGLE REPORTS FLU SEARCHES TO FEDS
Tue Nov 11 2008 15:44:50 ET



We know how you're feeling, we know if you're sick. We'll report it to the goverment.



GOOGLE will launch a new tool that will help U.S. federal officials track sickness. 'Flu Trends' uses search terms that people put into the Web-based search engine to figure out where influenza is heating up, and notify the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in real time.

GOOGLE claims it would keep individual user data confidential. "GOOGLE FLU TRENDS can never be used to identify individual users because we rely on anonymized, aggregated counts of how often certain search queries occur each week," the company said.

Dr. Lyn Finelli, chief of influenza surveillance at the CDC: "One thing we found last year when we validated this model is it tended to predict surveillance data. The data are really, really timely. They were able to tell us on a day-to-day basis the relative direction of flu activity for a given area. They were about a week ahead of us. They could be used ... as early warning signal for flu activity."

MORE

Developing...
ihurt
November 11th, 2008, 03:59 PM
Big Brother
ihurt
November 11th, 2008, 04:02 PM
No more siren but...

I got your back RR!

;)
fracturedInfinity
November 11th, 2008, 04:04 PM
Oh no, they know I'm sick!

http://www.rr-bb.com/showthread.php?t=67742

Oh well, maybe they'd like to offer to hold the hanky for me? Or bring me a hot cup o' tea. :)
Lisababy
November 11th, 2008, 04:06 PM
Oh no, they know I'm sick!

http://www.rr-bb.com/showthread.php?t=67742

Oh well, maybe they'd like to offer to hold the hanky for me? Or bring me a hot cup o' tea. :)

They found us out, didn't they! That's it!!! I'm outta here! :runhills
ihurt
November 11th, 2008, 04:08 PM
Nice thoughts FI but I think their motives aren't as pure. ;)
PGP_Protector
November 11th, 2008, 04:13 PM
Starts googling symptoms of strange illnesses :D