Without specifically acknowledging criticisms about its accuracy, Google announced Friday it would be making some changes to Google Flu Trends, the service that uses search data to track and predict ...

It’s a permanent sick day for Google Flu Trends, which announced Thursday plans to end the live flu tracking and prediction tool. Google Flu Trends launched in 2008 and became one of the first models ...

Google Flu Trends, as a website open to the general public, has shut down. The Google Flu Trends team will continue to track flu patterns based on search history, but it will now provide that data ...

Google has launched an updated U.S. Flu Trends model for the 2014-2015 flu season after “significantly overpredict[ing]” U.S. flu levels last season. Google Flu Trends aims to measure flu activity in ...

Scientific hindsight shows that Google Flu Trends far overstated this year's flu season, raising questions about the accuracy of using a search engine, which Google and the media hyped as an efficient ...

Google, the search-engine giant, may be able to help doctors anticipate when they’ll get a surge in the number of patients they see with flu symptoms. That’s the new finding from a team of doctors, ...

Flu season has hit hard particularly early and in a particularly nasty fashion this year (here's our full update on just how bad this flu season might get), and now you can look at its path by way of ...

Google announced the early release of the first API for Google Trends, known as the Google Trends API. Google Trends is a site that analyzes the popularity of top search queries in Google Search ...