Google Integrated Health Information In Knowledge Graph

Google has included information on more than 400 diseases in its Knowledge Base Knowledge Graph. The health information is first issued when searching in US English, both in the Google app for Android and iOS as well as in the desktop browser.

The information shall tonsillitis and measles, as well as tennis elbow and frostbite. Who is confused by advertising for gluten-free foods can find out about the fact only rare occurrence of celiac disease. The number of recognized diseases will continue to expand and make the information available outside the US later Google.

As a Google event indicates that a 20 queries health information applies. Although there were many good sources, the results could jeoch be incomplete or even less trustworthy. The structured and fine art from professional medical illustrators information in Google's info boxes are intended to provide a secure base knowledge to select better information services for the further search can.

Compiled and reviewed were the information by a team of doctors, led by the persons employed by Google itself Dr. Kapil Parakh. They moved into doing their own clinical experiences with a.Were additionally analyzed the facts of Google's doctors as well as employees of the hospital operator Mayo Clinic.

However, the search company will not serve with medical advice. "We know that individual cases in severity by an interested party to the other may be very different, and that there are always exceptions," wrote Google product manager Prem Ramaswami in a blog post . "What we present is intended for informational purposes only - and you should always consult a healthcare professional if you have a medical problem."

All figures shown are average at least reviewed by 11.1 doctors told Search Engine Land .According to Google, the Knowledge Graph needed to be revised under the hood in order to provide the information. Google mobile search turned out, for this health information are mainly intended.

With such innovations makes Google issued by himself increasingly to the actual destination results of a search, rather than the one arrives at a way station to the content actually desired. In May 2013, the Group launched - first in the US, and later as well as in Germany - for this purpose the Knowledge Base Knowledge Graph a. It contains about 500 million entries about people, places and things that appear alongside the usual search results.