Google Flu Trends expands to 16 additional countries
Posted on October 8, 2009 by by Valeri
Are you still wondering if you’ll be hit by the flu next? do you want to know if your city or country is going through a bad flue season? are you going to get the swine flu? now you will have a pretty good idea about it thanks to Google.org
Google.org has announced the expansion of their popular site Google Flu Trends to 16 additional countries, most of them from Europe. The site is also available in 37 languages.
List of countries in Google Flu Trends:
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- France
- Germany
- Hungary
- Japan
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Poland
- Russia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Ukraine
- United States
How does it work?
Last November, Google  launched Google Flu Trends in the United States after finding a close relationship between how many people search for flu-related topics and how many people actually have flu symptoms. Now, by tracking the popularity of certain Google search queries, they are able to estimate in near real-time the level of flu activity for a number of countries and regions around the world.
Find out more about it at Google Flu Trends FAQ page
