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Pitfalls of surfing for ills
New York City :: NY :: USA | 9 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
Web Searches Revealed in Anthony Case
Someone performed Internet searches for "neck breaking" and "household weapons" on the home computer of a Florida mother charged with killing her missing 3-year-old daughter, according to court documents released Wednesday. The Orange County State Attorney's...
Tags: Web Searches
Medical searches on Web can trigger anxiety: study
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year 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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