September, 15 2017 David Steinberg A 2008 (November 11) New York Times article trumpeted the success of Google Flu Trends (GFT) in tracking the progress of annual influenza outbreaks in the United States. The GFT assessments used data on search words to estimate the number of individuals affected with influenza like illness (ILI). By comparison to the official tracking results of the US Center for Disease Control (CDC), GFT appeared to be just as accurate and much
