--- description: Google searches of common ailments will soon include illustrated guides to treatment, the search giant announced on Tuesday. title: Here's How Google Wants to Make It Easier to Treat What Ails You image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt08a3376d3de727cf/69877e64e53aba31554d77d4/screen-shot-2015-02-10-at-9-43-43-am.png?branch=production&width=750&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Here's How Google Wants to Make It Easier to Treat What Ails You  by [Dan Kedmey](/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Updated: Dec 13, 2023 5:53 PM CUTPublished: Feb 10, 2015 3:02 PM CUT  Google  by [Dan Kedmey](/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Updated: Dec 13, 2023 5:53 PM CUTPublished: Feb 10, 2015 3:02 PM CUT Google searches of common ailments will soon include illustrated guides to treatment, the search giant [said](http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/02/health-info-knowledge-graph.html "undefined") Tuesday. The new feature, which will roll out over the course of this week, will encompass 400 of the most commonly searched medical conditions, from tonsillitis to pink eye. Along with illustrations of the symptoms, the results will include bulleted lists of how frequently the condition occurs and what treatments are available to patients. “We’re hoping to provide a framework for a more informed conversation with your doctor,” Amit Singhal, Google’s vice president in charge of search, [told](http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/02/10/google-adds-illustrations-and-consolidates-data-for-400-medical-terms/22992255/ "undefined") _USA Today_. WebMD shares [dropped](http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=WBMD+Interactive#%7B%22scale%22%3A%22linear%22%7D "undefined") by more than 5% in morning trading, shortly after Google’s announcement. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3702877/google-knowledge-graph-medical/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3702877/google-knowledge-graph-medical/"},"headline":"Here's How Google Wants to Make It Easier to Treat What Ails You","datePublished":"2015-02-10T15:02:09.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T17:53:45.000Z","description":"Search results will now include treatment options","url":"https://time.com/3702877/google-knowledge-graph-medical/","keywords":["Tech","Google","health","Web"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt08a3376d3de727cf/69877e64e53aba31554d77d4/screen-shot-2015-02-10-at-9-43-43-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dan Kedmey","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt08a3376d3de727cf/69877e64e53aba31554d77d4/screen-shot-2015-02-10-at-9-43-43-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Google medical conditions","caption":"Google medical conditions","creditText":"Google","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3702877/google-knowledge-graph-medical/","name":"Here's How Google Wants to Make It Easier to Treat What Ails You"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Google Working On Wearable Tech & Pill To Catch Diseases","description":"Google X — the team behind Google’s self-driving cars and glucose-measuring contact lenses — wants to tackle disease detection and prevention now.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/DPSiDAV1/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-10-29T14:30:06.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/DPSiDAV1.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3702877/google-knowledge-graph-medical/","duration":"PT1M52S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3702877/google-knowledge-graph-medical/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```