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Pitfalls of surfing for ills
New York City :: NY :: USA | 4 days ago
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It’s just a little tic, but it keeps coming and going over the course of a few weeks, and so I decide to do a little medical investigation online. I plug “recurrent eye twitch” into my friendly search engine and, after several hours poring over a range...
Tags: Eric Horvitz, searches engines, Microsoft, web searches, family history, New York City, Internet culture, Psychiatry, Bing, Web search engine, Caffeine, Somatoform disorders, Internet search engines, Cyberchondria
Cyberchondira – Are you affected as well?
The hypothesis goes like this; you wake up in the morning with a severe headache and before consulting a doctor, the first thing you do is search for it on the web. If you find out that you may have brain tumor then you are quite likely suffering from...
Tags: cyberchondria, Microsoft, web search engines, information retrieval technology
Medical searches on Web can trigger anxiety: study
Washington :: DC :: USA | 12 months ago
Credibility Playing doctor on the Web often leads people to mistakenly believe that they are suffering from rare illnesses, according to a study by researchers at Microsoft. "Web search engines have the potential to escalate medical concerns," or "cyberchondria,"...
Tags: cyberchondria, web searches
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