Google Flu Trends
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1 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 22, 2026 by Carissa Véliz · across every show →
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Apr 22, 2026 negative
Véliz: Google Flu Trends failed because search query data was too noisy
“When Google tried to predict flus and pandemic type events it tried for years and years and years, it increased the complexity, it increased the data, and it could never do it, and eventually it shut down.
Partly because it was relying on people's searches,
Pe…”