A practical algorithm for extracting multiple data samples from google trends extended for health

Research using Google Trends (GT) data has proliferated (1–3) since 2009 (4), mostly using data from the public-facing website (GT-W,https://trends.google.com), despite the availability of better quality data through the Google Trends Extended for Health API (GT-E), which returns raw probabilities, unlike GT-W ’s scaled values.

Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - May 4, 2022 Category: Epidemiology Source Type: research