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google flu trends :: Article Creator Google Tool Uses Search Terms To Detect Flu Outbreaks (CNN) -- If you have a fever, headache and runny nose, you might go to Google and type the words "flu symptoms" to see whether you've come down with influenza. Google Flu Trends provides a map of influenza activity in the U.S. At www.Google.Org/flutrends. Google knows that you might do something like that, and it also knows which U.S. State you're in. Now, it's putting that information together in a tool that Google says could detect flu outbreaks faster than traditional systems currently in use. Google's new public health initiative, Google Flu Trends, looks at the relative popularity of a slew of flu-related search terms to determine where in the U.S. Flu outbreaks may be occurring. "What's exciting about Flu Trends is that it lets anybody -- epidemiologists, health officials, moms with sick children -- le...