Paging Dr. Google: Google rolls out symptom-related direct answers on mobile
Google says it worked with a team of doctors, experts from Harvard Medical School and the Mayo Clinic to curate information.
Google announced today that it is rolling out new symptom-related direct answers on mobile.
According to the announcement, searches for specific symptoms like “headache on one side” will display a list of related conditions, while a search for an individual symptom such as “headache” will return a description of the symptom, self-treatment options and possible health issues related to the symptom that may necessitate a doctor’s visit.
Google says it worked with a team of medical doctors, experts at Harvard Medical School and the Mayo Clinic when pulling together information for symptom-related searches, and that its symptom-related information is curated from “high-quality medical information” pulled from the Knowledge Graph.
[blockquote cite = “Official Google Blog”]By doing this, our goal is to help you to navigate and explore health conditions related to your symptoms, and quickly get to the point where you can do more in-depth research on the web or talk to a health professional.[/blockquote]
Google says one percent of its searches are symptom-related.
The new symptom-related search results are being rolled out exclusively on mobile in the coming days, and only in English in the US. Google says it plans to include more symptom-related searches and will eventually extend such search results globally in other languages.
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