Small steps, my computer brethren. But trumping the CDC is no minor feat. From the article: ” In the 2007-08 flu season, Google accurately estimated current flu levels one to two weeks faster than published CDC reports in each of the nine U.S. surveillance regions, Google said in a statement.”
Impressive.
Semi-related posts:
More importantly:
Google has 44,000 (Jeremy, intrigued?) results right now for “The Great Robot Uprising”
whereas
on CDC.gov I got “No pages or documents were found containing ‘the great robot uprising’”.
Clearly Cory Doctorow and Lawrence Lessig are correct in asserting that the power of the Internet trumps national borders, especially with regards to our greatest threat to our health.
No documents found = they are now missing
But did you see what Gwen Stefani did with her baby and Creative Commons? Pretty cool:
http://lessig.org/blog/2008/11/latest_ccfamous.html