Comments on: One decade later, 80 percent of Web users looking for health info still start with a search engine http://gigaom.com/2013/01/14/one-decade-later-80-percent-of-web-users-looking-for-health-info-still-start-with-a-search-engine/ Tue, 21 May 2013 16:51:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ron Larson http://gigaom.com/2013/01/14/one-decade-later-80-percent-of-web-users-looking-for-health-info-still-start-with-a-search-engine/#comment-1299310 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:29:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=601569#comment-1299310 One benefit of this habit is that it allows the CDC to spot outbreaks. Google is already pretty good at spotting flu outbreaks.
http://www.google.org/flutrends/about/how.html

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AheadoftheCurve/story?id=5332263&page=1

If a nastier bug starts spreading, Google would spot it first. As people type in symptoms, Google knows where they are. This can be very effective tool for public health around the world.

]]> By: don http://gigaom.com/2013/01/14/one-decade-later-80-percent-of-web-users-looking-for-health-info-still-start-with-a-search-engine/#comment-1299145 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:13:59 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=601569#comment-1299145 An internet search will provide links to the appropriate sites at the CDC, NIH, WebMD, Mayo, etc.

Sometimes it is easier to start with the specific object of the search than to wade through the various trails at one of the web sites. The ones that are helpful have been bookmarked, but some of those links are not available a year later because the owners have decided to change them – without providing access from their older links. Some home sites have some serious problems with their mazes of links, making it tedious in obtaining information.

]]> By: TogTin Moses http://gigaom.com/2013/01/14/one-decade-later-80-percent-of-web-users-looking-for-health-info-still-start-with-a-search-engine/#comment-1299114 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:15:35 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=601569#comment-1299114 Fascinating indeed. I never thought about it like that.

http://www.okAnon.tk

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