Similar-ish to the cancelled 'Google Flu Trends' project, which tried to predict flu outbreaks based on search trends. A paper was initially published, containi

Similar-ish to the cancelled 'Google Flu Trends' project, which tried to predict flu outbreaks based on search trends. A paper was initially published, containing fantastic results, but since then the results have not been great: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=289802934 http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?story... I like the Google quote at the bottom of the article - '...part of the issue was that they sometimes get a flood of searches simply when there's a lot of flu in the news'. Who would have thought of that, eh? It apparently took eight years to discover!