Google launched a website dedicated to information about Covid-19 a week after U.S. President Donald Trump touted the company\u2019s help in the fight against the pandemic.<\/p>\n
The internet giant said it worked with \u201crelevant agencies and authorities\u201d to roll out the site —\u00a0google.com\/covid19<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0— which went live on the web late Friday offering education, prevention and local resources related to the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n At the top of the site, there\u2019s an information box describing virus symptoms, treatment and prevention tips from the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n Google also included links to state departments of health across the U.S., search trends related to Covid-19, and other resources for individuals, educators and businesses.<\/p>\n \u201cLaunching today in the U.S., the site will be available in more languages and countries in the coming days and we\u2019ll update the website as more resources become available,\u201d Google said in a statement. \u201cAlong with our other products and initiatives, we\u00a0hope<\/span>\u00a0these resources will help people find answers to the questions they\u2019re asking and get the help they need.\u201d<\/p>\n The\u00a0coronvirus<\/span>\u00a0has spread around the globe, infecting more than 250,000 people and killing over 10,000. In the U.S., about a\u00a0third of the population<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>has been told to stay home, triggering a\u00a0financial market crash<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and dire warnings of\u00a0economic decline<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n As the distributors of most online information, Google and other internet giants have been called on to help by\u00a0limiting misinformation<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and highlighting trustworthy sources.<\/p>\n On March 13, Trump said Alphabet Inc.\u2019s Google had\u00a0roughly 1,700 engineers working on a virus website<\/a><\/strong>. At the time, no one was sure exactly what he was talking about. Verily, a health-care unit of Alphabet, has rolled out\u00a0a triage website<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that offers a limited number of virus tests in Silicon Valley. But Google itself has been developing its own site, which launched this Friday.<\/p>\n Google hopes to include a link on its website to a questionnaire from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that will ask people about any virus symptoms and direct them to testing locations and other resources.<\/p>\n Under a resources tab on the left of Google\u2019s site, the company linked to many of its own services. A\u00a0section for teachers<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>on how to instruct students from home listed company offerings such as Google Classroom, Google Docs and Google Hangouts.<\/p>\n A Google spokesman declined to say when the company began work on the website. Google\u2019s site also includes links to several YouTube videos, culled from channels the spokesman said the company will be curating.<\/p>\n Google also created bespoke search pages to show people when they look for online information about Covid-19. The company will show no ads alongside these results. There will be a carousel of virus-related Twitter posts from vetted sources, too.<\/p>\n The site and revamped search experience are some of the first major projects from Google\u2019s new health division.<\/p>\n Google launched a website dedicated to information about Covid-19 a week after U.S. President Donald Trump touted the company\u2019s help in the fight against the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":343809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,40380],"tags":[62808,63397,167],"class_list":["post-343807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","category-trending","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343807"}],"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\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: Microsoft launches free coronavirus tracking website<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"