wired.com— Google?s search data may have been able to provide an early warning of the swine flu outbreak ? if the company had been looking in the right place.
Apr 29, 2009View in Crawl 4
If Google did that, everyone would be bitching and complaining "They're too powerful and using our information without our permission!", and so on.
So? No one would have done anything or cared unless something bad happens (or the media blows something out of proportion because it ran out of news to 'report').
I have often thougt about the collective intelligence of the internet and if we could somehow gather and filter the generalities, what we may find. I have read that since 2012 is quite the discussion and there is general fear associated with that year--for obvious reasons. If somehow we could retune google and look for these patterns, what else might be found?
Closed AccountApr 30, 2009
If Google did that, everyone would be bitching and complaining "They're too powerful and using our information without our permission!", and so on.
kbotApr 30, 2009
So? No one would have done anything or cared unless something bad happens (or the media blows something out of proportion because it ran out of news to 'report').
liquidsgiApr 30, 2009
I have often thougt about the collective intelligence of the internet and if we could somehow gather and filter the generalities, what we may find. I have read that since 2012 is quite the discussion and there is general fear associated with that year--for obvious reasons. If somehow we could retune google and look for these patterns, what else might be found?
marcymeowApr 30, 2009
Yea, can everybody say "I want my Baxter-made flu shot!"