Are Self-Help Medical Sites Reliable?

By Ping Fleming


Will you be able to guess what Google does to users searching self-help medical web sites? You can do the test yourself and put in keywords and phrases associated with it and see that Google will redirect your search results to a security page where you will be requested to type in a password just to make sure that you are a genuine human being and not a robot attempting to log on the medical site.

It's fascinating to grasp why Google does this. As you know, search results in Google are partly as a result of how many people accessing the internet sites or through Search Engine Optimisation or SEO. The dark side of SEO can involve a lot of methods, together with the usage of robots, just to duplicate real human being visits to a website in the attempt of tricking Google into thinking that the site is relevant because of the number of visits.

With the redirect to the security page, you are able to then convince Google that you're a human visitor and not a robot. And that you purposefully desire to consult a medical website.

This gives you the knowledge that the health check site you accessed will give you secure information. After all, your wellbeing and your family's wellness can depend on it.

This is a worthy move for Google. And we can carefully assume that their work won't stop - since it might only be a matter of time before dark tacticians could develop a super clever robot that will be able to read and key passwords.

Individuals depend on Google greatly for things they need to better care for their family. Mothers consider the internet to make inquiries wellbeing, to find recipes for good and instant-fix meals, and even to entertain themselves with modern gossip. The integrity of these information is important since you can imagine the nightmare that could happen if a mother provides the incorrect pills for an ailing baby, or puts the wrong ingredients for any dish, or simply gets the latest buzz off beam.




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