Knowledge Graph

Google taps National Alliance on Mental Illness to add depression screener to search

By Jonah Comstock 02:47 pm August 29, 2017

While Google the company -- now known as Alphabet -- has spun its health operations into several growing subsidiaries, Google the search engine continues to be one of the major ways people seek to learn about their health. To its credit, Google has displayed an awareness of the "ask Dr. Google" phenomenon and over the years has steadily improved what people see when they make health-related...

Dr. Google steps up its medical search game again

By Jonah Comstock 04:38 am February 10, 2015

By better leveraging its Knowledge Graph smart search algorithm, Google is giving its health-related search functions a shot in the arm. Starting in the next few days, health searches on Google and via the Google app will display a wide range of medical facts about the disease or condition in question. "We’ll show you typical symptoms and treatments, as well as details on how common the condition...