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The next time you need to identify a mysterious pain in your body, you could look it up in Google Search, and Google will tell you directly on the results page what might be the possible cause of your symptoms.
"You might be trying to understand why you’ve had a headache every morning for a week or why your child has a tummy ache all of a sudden," Google Chief Health Strategist Roni Zeiger said in a blog post Monday.
Google could tell by looking at its search data that when people typically searched for a symptom, they were interested in learning about possible causes and related conditions. Now Google has removed that second search and includes "searches related to" the symptom and possible causes.
"The list is generated by our algorithms that analyze data from pages across the web and surface the health conditions that appear to be related to your search," Zeiger wrote.
Of course Google reminds users that the list is not created by doctors and shouldn't be used to replace the expert advice from medical professionals.
Check out the video above to learn more. Do you think this will be a useful update?