Subscribe to RSSSwine Flu Infects the Web
Swine flu may not have officially reached pandemic levels yet, but the hype certainly has. It seems to be the headline in every publication and I can hardly have a conversation about anything without swine flu creeping in. And people have been turning to the web for the latest information from a variety of sources.
Search destinations for ‘swine flu’ span several different categories, from major news sites to social networks. Searchers are doing their historical research too – CapitalCentury.com has seen a spike in interest due to an article about the 1976 outbreak of swine flu. Official government channels are the destination of choice for the updates on the outbreak though, with cdc.gov receiving one third of all search referrals for the term.
With information and speculation about swine flu coming from all over, it’s good to see that people are looking to the CDC most often to get the official word. I just hope that the chart of confirmed swine flu cases doesn’t look like this in a couple weeks.
