In a blog post on Monday, Google acknowledged health information can be difficult to navigate, and tends to lead people from mild symptoms to scary and unlikely conditions, which can cause anxiety and stress.
Google turned to Harvard and the Mayo Clinic to develop symptom cards that will appear above its conventional search results.
“So starting in the coming days, when you ask Google about symptoms like “headache on one side,” we’ll show you a list of related conditions (“headache,” “migraine,” “tension headache,” “cluster headache,” “sinusitis,” and “common cold”). For individual symptoms like “headache,” we’ll also give you an overview description along with information on self-treatment options and what might warrant a doctor’s visit,” the blog post reads.
The company said it will roll out the update on mobile over the next few days in English in the U.S.
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