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Google will "knock" on those who are engaged in self-treatment

In the era of the development of the Internet and the presence of a huge amount of information in it, it is often easier for us to learn something in the search engine, rather than turn to a specialist. Sometimes this is justified, but only not if it concerns our health. After all, often the consequences of wrong treatment can be worse than the disease itself. And recently this process interested in Google, which will report "where it is necessary" about those who are engaged in self-treatment thanks to the search engine.


In this case, "where necessary" - these are medical centers. If you are worried about your safety, then it is not worth it, since everything that Google has in mind is official and legal. The fact is that Google's trends, as well as tweets with geolocation - it's public information, open to everyone. And doctors have been analyzing it for a long time. For example, experts at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found a link between cases of syphilis outbreaks and online activity in these areas.

The history of queries in Google to search for some key words like "STD" (sexually transmitted diseases) and "Find Sex" (here it seems to us that translation is not required) is directly related to an increase in the number of reported cases of syphilis on the same in the next few weeks. Another study revealed a regularity between the outbreaks of syphilis and tweets about syphilis in "Twitter."

Moreover, the experts compared the findings of the data with the actual level of syphilis in 4 years. At the same time, a direct link was found between the behavior of people on the web and their sexual health. So, maybe in the future we will have to watch what we ask the search engine. In order not to become a participant of the experiment.

The article is based on materials https://hi-news.ru/research-development/google-budet-stuchat-na-tex-kto-zanimaetsya-samolecheniem.html.

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