Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, has launched a service to help medical experts and the public track the incidence of influenza across the United States. Google Flu Trends presents a map of current flu activity throughout the nation. Flu kills between 250,000 and 500,000 people a year and studies indicate that between 35% and 40% of all visits to the internet are started by people looking for health information.
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After over three decades, we’re finally getting ready to go back to the Moon. To help you prepare, and to whet your appetite for exploration, we teamed up with scientists at the NASA Ames Research Center to bring you this collection of lunar maps and charts. This tool is an exciting new way to explore the story of the Apollo missions, still the only time mankind has set foot on another world.
The new search engine Cuil debuted online Sunday, July 27. This new search engine, created by Anna Paterson, Russell Power (both ex-Google employees) and Tom Costello (of IBM), hopes to compete with Google. 33 million dollars have been invested in this ambitious project which, according to Anna Paterson, indexes some 120 billion web pages, three times as many as Google does. However, this new search engine lacks certain features that have been key to Google’s success: maps, image search, and website audience measuring tools. At the moment, Cuil is only available in English, but by the end of the year it is expected to be available in other languages like Spanish and French.