Everyone should count
Aug 07, 2020
4 minutes
By Johan Fourie
we live in a world where information is available at the click of a button. Only three decades ago, a trip to the local library was the only way to know the population size of Portugal or Papua New Guinea. Acquiring information was expensive.
Much of that has changed in the information era. Google processes about 3.5bn internet searches a day, providing a valuable service, but also generating valuable and timeous information. One new research paper shows how Google searches for the loss of smell in eight countries predicted a rise in Covid-19 deaths. Another
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