Posts tagged: dire

Nov 26 2008

Searching for health on the web often leads to the most dire diagnoses

Microsoft released a study looking at the patterns of those who perform health-related searches on popular search engines.

Searching for health on the web often leads to the most dire diagnoses

To no one’s surprise, “self-diagnosis by search engine frequently leads Web searchers to conclude the worst about what ails them.”

People only looked at the first few results for their keyword symptom searches, which often contained zebras like “ALS” or “brain tumor,” meaning they often Read more »