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Google Uses Searches to Track Flu’s Spread

By MIGUEL HELFT New York TimesWhat if Google knew before anyone else that a fast-spreading flu outbreak was putting you at heightened risk of getting sick? And what if it could alert you, your doctor and your local public health officials before the muscle aches and chills kicked in?* That, in essence, is the promise [...]

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Net::Google::Code::Issue::Comment(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		    Net::Google::Code::Issue::Comment(3pm)

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Net::Google::Code::Issue::Comment - Issue's Comment DESCRIPTION
ATTRIBUTES
project project name email, password user's email and password issue_id sequence sequence number, initial comment( when you create an issue ) has sequence 0 date content author updates HashRef that reflects updates attachments INTERFACE
parse( HTML::Element or html segment string ) parse format like the following: <td class="vt issuecomment"> <span class="author">Comment <a name="c18" href="#c18">18</a> by <a href="/u/jsykari/">jsykari</a></span>, <span class="date" title="Wed Sep 3 04:44:39 2008">Sep 03, 2008</span> <pre> <b>haha</b> </pre> <div class="attachments"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0"> <tr><td rowspan="2" width="24"><a href="http://chromium.googlecode.com/issues/attachment?aid=-1323983749556004507&amp;name=proxy_settings.png" target="new"><img width="16" height="16" src="/hosting/images/generic.gif" border="0" ></a></td> <td><b>proxy_settings.png</b></td></tr> <tr><td>14.3 KB <a href="http://chromium.googlecode.com/issues/attachment?aid=-1323983749556004507&amp;name=proxy_settings.png">Download</a></td></tr> </table> </div> <div class="updates"> <div class="round4"></div> <div class="round2"></div> <div class="round1"></div> <div class="box-inner"> <b>Cc:</b> thatan...@google.com<br><b>Status:</b> Available<br><b>Labels:</b> Mstone-X<br> </div> <div class="round1"></div> <div class="round2"></div> <div class="round4"></div> </div> </td> list google's api way to get list of comments return a list of loaded( no scraping is done here ) comments in list context, a ref to the list otherwise. parse_hybrid when $Net::Google::Code::Issue::USE_HYBRID is true, we will try to load comments with the google's official api, but as the api is not complete, we still need to do scraping to load something( e.g. attachments ), this method is used to do this. AUTHOR
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Copyright 2008-2010 Best Practical Solutions. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.10.1 2010-04-07 Net::Google::Code::Issue::Comment(3pm)