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- inactive, on 04/29/2009, -2/+115Don't blame it on Google.
- shutaro, on 04/30/2009, -1/+69Way to NOT predict the Apocalypse, Google!
- jynweythek, on 04/30/2009, -1/+38If this tool was available before the flu outbreak, why weren't you studying it to catch it yourself? ass.
- SarahC, on 04/30/2009, -4/+39They have the internet in Mexico?
- hydrodev, on 04/30/2009, -0/+22Speaking of swine flu.
http://www.friv.com/x/sneeze/game.html
FUN! - LeepII, on 04/30/2009, -1/+19And in 2008 Tamiflu's perspective to investors predicted that their sales would go up 531% in 2009!
- kplo, on 04/30/2009, -0/+16Google has killed us all!
- inactive, on 04/30/2009, -0/+12we DID catch it early! Stop acting like it is kiling off the population.
- kplo, on 04/30/2009, -1/+12...on the rain, perhaps?
- MattL920, on 04/30/2009, -1/+12I think the whole thing is just to raise the price of tin foil hats. looks like it's working
- sodoh, on 04/30/2009, -0/+11I blame Twitter. You know how hard it is for pigs to type into that website?
- rrotate, on 04/30/2009, -0/+10Yeah! Seriously! All you're good for is looking for BOOBS on street view, that's all you'll ever amount to anyway!
- rblancarte, on 04/30/2009, -2/+11No, you still don't blame Google. They handle the information. It is not their job to sift through the information and look for trends.
Now, they do have trends setup to allow for users to do their own similar analysis. Why not blame CDC for not doing that on their own? - buckyballs, on 04/30/2009, -6/+15Here we go, try to pin the blame on someone, because it's always someone's fault
CAN YOU NOT REALISE THAT SOMETIMES THINGS 'JUST HAPPEN' AND IT'S NOONES FAULT!
Welcome to the modern world. - inactive, on 04/30/2009, -0/+7If Google did that, everyone would be bitching and complaining "They're too powerful and using our information without our permission!", and so on.
- LugaZap, on 04/30/2009, -0/+6Well it is kinda *****, but its pretty understandable that Google could actually start seeing trends via web searches and be a bit predictive to world events. Thats makes it a pretty dam powerful tool.
- jasminlecormier, on 04/30/2009, -0/+6Especially since the bump in the google flu data does not go higher than the "low" level. Wired fails at writing critical articles.
- Drizzit, on 04/30/2009, -0/+6I thought you were full of it.
http://www.chugai-pharm.co.jp/pdf/annual_report/20 ...
I guess Antivirus Software companies are not the only ones making the virii. - rblancarte, on 04/30/2009, -1/+7Well except that little kid that kissed the pig. Blame him.
- xsecretfiles, on 04/30/2009, -5/+10Blame it on the a a a a a alcohol
- BuG56, on 04/30/2009, -3/+8Because it's google's job to do this kind of stuff.
- elperegrino, on 04/30/2009, -1/+6thank god google hasn't caught swine flu
- Tenareth, on 04/30/2009, -0/+5No, it wasn't. The child was from Mexico and just died while IN the US, not the same thing.
- Cojafoji, on 04/30/2009, -0/+5Spoiler: Google is really skynet! THE END HAS BEGUN!
- bduddy, on 04/30/2009, -0/+4Really? Flu awareness posters started appearing right before flu season? Now why would that happen?
- ChocChunkOaties, on 04/30/2009, -0/+4Blame it on the Boogie.
- mikewire, on 04/30/2009, -1/+5This is stupid. Common sense > Google.
- gotflash, on 04/30/2009, -0/+4Thank you for that insightful commentary.
Now, go take a nap on some train tracks. - SteveIsTheDude, on 04/30/2009, -0/+4Give 'em a mobile device with a Twitter client... duh.
- NJank, on 04/30/2009, -1/+5boobs on street view? link or it didn't happen.
- nirvanix, on 04/30/2009, -0/+4Is there anybody at Digg capable of an intelligent comment? I can't believe how uninformed and sarcastic people here are. Do you all live in a dark basement and jerk-off all day? Because you certainly don't read anything I'm quite sure.
It has been widely reported in the media that:
Google has partnered with medical companies in the States to make medical records Google-searchable.
They also pass on medical related search statistics to the CDC/government health agencies. They probably could have been tipped off about a rise in flu cases if they were looking for that trend. - swizzcheez, on 04/30/2009, -1/+4Wait. Who's blaming them? At the moment, Google's aggregation is like the Bible Code. You don't learn anything until after it's happened (cause you don't know what to look for), but unlike the Bible Code Google's data mining might have some REAL value to mankind.
- KSUdesigner, on 04/30/2009, -0/+3Why should Google have to monitor it? They make the information freely available to anybody who wants it. Isn't it the CDC's job to be monitoring this sort of thing?
- deskimo, on 04/30/2009, -0/+3It's not Google's job to stop pandemics, though it wouldn't be a bad idea for them to start monitoring this kind of thing (if they aren't already) to help out the CDC's surveillance efforts.
I hope they're paying attention when people start searching for "sweating+blood" - swizzcheez, on 04/30/2009, -0/+3Floogle
- 07dcolem, on 04/30/2009, -1/+4don't bury this guy he's being sarcastic.
- BuG56, on 04/30/2009, -0/+3Wow I didn't even think that anybody wouldn't catch that...
- hicksw24, on 04/30/2009, -1/+4You expect us to believe Google can catch swine flu?
Last time I checked their servers were locked in a secure area with their own ecosystem, so there's no way the virus could have gotten in there.
How dumb do you think we are? - RaulMuadDib, on 04/30/2009, -0/+3Google Flu
- nirvanix, on 04/30/2009, -0/+3Actually they are. they have partnered with medical companies in the states to make medical records Google-searchable.
They also pass on medical related search statistics to the CDC. - inactive, on 04/30/2009, -0/+2So, because Google has statistics now, they could have known then?
A better headline: Wired Fails To Understand That Data Does Not Exist Before The Fact.. - JethroSoulja, on 04/30/2009, -1/+3Now terrorist groups can just make a ***** of 'SARS' searches and scare the ***** out of everyone!
- thegoudster, on 04/30/2009, -0/+2Hindsight is always 20/20.
- inactive, on 04/30/2009, -2/+4google's search technology is impressive but we can hardly expect them to be psychic.
- crossmr, on 04/30/2009, -2/+4I can't wait for the inevitable lawsuit after the first US death..
- jfitz369, on 04/30/2009, -0/+2Don't blame Google, blame the pharmaceutical company that made this weaponized flu concoction - cause a pig/bird/human/european/asian/american flu strain doesn't just happen. Remember these guys from a couple months ago...
Baxter Sent Bird Flu Virus to European Labs by Error > http://cli.gs/rtb7Jr (Bloomberg) - Verytastycheese, on 04/30/2009, -1/+3I'd like to point out that EVERYONE has access to this data and anyone could have searched for it, like a team of Mexican health officials, perhaps. Google supplies the data to anyone who wants it, why should it be up to them to analyze it too?
- TheFuzzyOne, on 04/30/2009, -0/+2http://www.google.com/trends?q=influenza%2C++phleg ...
Earliest they could have spotted it would be the 24th. Is that enough time to prevent it? - draxenato, on 04/30/2009, -7/+9My first reaction was, why blame Google ? You don't blame newspapers for just reporting on serial killers and not identifying them after all. But Google is a different case. Unlike newspapers, the search engine does know what its audience is reading and researching, and with that in mind set up its Flu Trends team back in November with the cooperation of the CDC. Their brief was to concentrate on US data so I guess Mexico was under their radar. But their Predict and Prevent team has been running a bit longer and has a broader remit so maybe they could've caught it.
But I don't know the inner workings of Google, I don't know how well resourced these teams are or what sort of priority they get within the organisation. - Ouze, on 04/30/2009, -1/+3well, whatever thing you do, don't put no blame on you.
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