We Are What We Search

摘要

Iam not a packrat (de-spite what you might haveheard). I do admit to savingthings—selected things—against the day they might comein handy. Synchronicity struckthe other day when I ran acrossan old article I'd saved that per-fectly fit my topic for this month. It was about a new tool in Google'sarsenal that analyzes the terms thatpeople search to help predict whenflu might hit their region. Tradi-tionally, epidemiologists and publichealth workers examine data fromclinics, labs, and healthcare workersto get a sense of when and where fluis building and peaking.