VIDEO: Would You Trust Google to Give Medical Advice?
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Soon, you'll be able to Google a health condition and be presented with a list of symptoms. This is not just some algorithm, either — this information has been crafted and complied, in part, by medical doctors at the Mayo Clinic. With one in 20 searches being health-related, is this just solving a need, or enabling hypochondriacs?
In this brief — yet lively — video, our experts discuss if medical advice from Google is a good thing or not.
What about you, readers? Is Google doing a good thing, here? Tell us in the comments below!
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