This is a thoughtful response . As well , medical searches can help guide us on better medical care on a whole . One of my favourite applications is the use in drug interactions from googling combinations of drugs and side effects we can start to defer frequency of occurence of side effects from medication as well as how medications perform when they interact with each other . With how many drugs are available , we don ' t know if and how they all mix and can find dangerous health side effects . This is also more consistent , genuine , unbiased data than relying on doctors to report both on the part of the doctor and what a patient is willing to tell them . This data allows us to create algorithms that can then figure out the possible outcomes of mixing specific medications , instead of using trial and error on an actual patient .