{"id":169051,"date":"2016-06-21T07:58:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T05:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=169051"},"modified":"2016-06-21T08:00:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T06:00:36","slug":"thanks-dr-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/169051-thanks-dr-google.html","title":{"rendered":"Thanks, Dr. Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google will start showing you a list of related conditions when you search for medical symptoms, which will help users to self-diagnose.<\/p>\n<p>When you ask Google about symptoms like \u201cheadache on one side\u201d, Google will show you a list of related conditions (headache, migraine, tension headache, cluster headache, sinusitis, and common cold).<\/p>\n<p>For individual symptoms like \u201cheadache\u201d, Google will also give you an overview description along with information on self-treatment options and what might warrant a doctor\u2019s visit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy doing this, our goal is to help you&#8230;\u00a0quickly get to the point where you can do more in-depth research on the web or talk to a health professional,\u201d said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.co.za\/2016\/06\/im-feeling-yucky-searching-for-symptoms.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Google<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Google worked with a team of medical doctors to review the individual symptom information, and experts at Harvard Medical School and Mayo Clinic evaluated related conditions for a representative sample of searches to help improve the lists it shows.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Google<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/168783-google-signs-anti-piracy-pledge.html\"><strong>Google signs anti-piracy pledge<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/168773-twitter-facebook-and-google-sued-for-terrorist-attacks.html\">Twitter, Facebook, and Google sued for terrorist attacks<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/168205-big-google-chrome-security-bug-fixed.html\">Big Google Chrome security bug fixed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google will start showing you a list of related conditions when you search for medical symptoms, which will help you to self-diagnose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":169053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,167],"class_list":["post-169051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169063,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169051\/revisions\/169063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}