Detecting trends in searches for salient terms made on internet search engines, such as Google, has been touted as a way of better predicting and potentially managing events. One obvious application is to predict health emergencies, such as pandemics, in advance of, or as they occur. For instance, Sam Gilbert, an affiliated researcher, for the Bennet I…
Finding the Flu is easy, just Google it!
The flu supposedly vanished during the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic, but internet searches for 'flu' continued as normal.
