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.

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 ...

On the Google Flu Trends website, the search gurus note that at the national and international level, “up-to-date influenza estimates may enable public health officials and health professionals ...

When Google Flu Trends launched in 2008, it was seen as a groundbreaking, and potentially more accurate way to track the spread of influenza through the prevalence of flu-related web searches.

"Understanding how people search when they're feeling sick is an important problem to solve, as it can help improve projects like Google Flu Trends, which uses aggregated search data to detect ...

With just a few keyboard clicks, Google can tell you the capital of Hungary, how many Euros are in a U.S. $20 bill or show you dancing hamsters. And this year it might also be able to tell you ...

Patel also led the development of other major tools, including Google Podcasts and Google Flu Trends. Now, he leads the engineering teams in Google Search, including Discover, Image Search, Lens ...