Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Be Careful What You Search For...

GOOGLE will launch a new tool that will help federal officials "track sickness".

"Flu Trends" uses search terms that people put into the web giant to figure out where influenza is heating up, and will notify the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in real time!
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Source: Drudge Report

Note: Here's the scary part -
Thomas Malone, professor at M.I.T.says, "I think we are just scratching the surface of what's possible with collective intelligence."

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