God google has embarked into yet another avatar (Incarnation!!) Least one would have expected that search engine could be used as a barometer to track flu spreading fast. With mountains of past data available, google engineers seemed to have found few keywords which would indicate spread of flu.
Check it out – http://www.google.org/flutrends/
(SOurce google.org)
Technology is from Google Inc, but donated to Google.org – its philanthropic arm(I personally feel it more than just that! Investing $$ in alternative fuel resource is no mean task !)
They have tested the results and compared it with National medical database of the past & it seemed to work “very very” well in their own words !
Technology to common man & more a conundrum to many of them – I am definitely one illiterate among them. But this feat is really amazing !!
Next time u sneeze ,mind that you are one of them they are after !! But little typed “Sneeze” would be of more help please! Adds to public database too .. Cool .. oh, shud I say cold 
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