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Americans Turn To Google And Then Google For Swine Flu Info

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Americans Turn To Google And Then Google For Swine Flu Info

When sufficiently scared from TV swine flu hype*, people turned to the Internet for information, specifically Google, according to ' /></a> <br /> <br /> Though most frequented local TV news and cable news (69% and 63%) for swine flu news, half of those polls then turned to internet to find more information. Their chief starting point, as you might imagine was Google. What’s more interesting than that though is, for many, the ending point was also Google. <br /> <br /> Searchers began with most with queries like “swine flu symptoms” and “swine flu” were the most popular related queries, topping the list of rising queries in Google Trends. Most of them landed at cdc.gov, the Center for Disease Control website. But if they didn’t trust the government enough on the issue, they opted for the realtime anonymous credibility of Wikipedia, the second most visited swine flu-related site. <br /> <br /> The top 10 destination sites were as follows: <br /> <br /> 1.    www.cdc.gov<br /> 2.    www.wikipedia.org<br /> 3.    News.google.com<br /> 4.    News.yahoo.com<br /> 5.    www.myspace.com2 <br /> 6.    www.cnn.com<br /> 7.    www.yahoo.com<br /> 8.    www.pandemicflu.gov<br /> 9.    www.facebook.com<br /> 10.    www.who.int</p> <p>Thanks to government recommendation, though, searchers often ended up at Google’s Flu Trends site, which was able to track certain search terms and IP addresses to get a quick glimpse of how the pandemic was spreading. About 213,000 others saw the <a href=CDC’s closed captioned YouTube video about it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5t1r7yG7rM

The government was pretty active in general with social media use. After deleting the previous tenant’s tweets, the

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