What’s the first thing you do when you want to know if you’re getting sick? Look up your symptoms on the internet [1], right? Well then, you can imagine what an impact the infamous Swine Flu has had on search engines, blog [2] posts and tweets. Nielson reported nearly 2% of all Twitter Tweets were regarding the Swine Flu. In one week, its Wikipedia entry was updated 60 times between 10am and 11am. And according to ComScore, its search engine [3] results jumped 1,900% in one week.

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