Maximum generable interest: A universal standard for Google Trends search queries

The coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic represents a health event with far-reaching global consequences, triggering a strong search interest in related topics on the Internet worldwide. The use of search engine data has become commonplace in research, but a universal standard for comparing different wo...

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Published in:	Healthcare Analytics
Main Authors:	Steffen Springer, Artur Strzelecki, Michael Zieger
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2023-11-01
Subjects:	Search engine data Google Trends Infodemiology Infoveillance Universal reference Maximum generable interest
Online Access:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772442523000254

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