Abstract
Medical information is becoming increasingly available to the public with the advent of modern technology and internet access. Google is arguably the most commonly used resource when searching for information. We researched the Google search trends of several topics related to men’s health. To explore online search trends for topics related to men’s health and identify any information-seeking patterns related to news and media coverage of these topics. We used Google Trends (http://google.com/trends) to explore search trends for various search terms related to men’s health in the United States over the past 5 years. When possible, these terms were searched as “Topics” that cover a group of terms that share the same concept in any language. Search queries provided graphs depicting search volume as a function of time, geographical data, and related topics and queries. Graphs were compared to rank topics based on search volume. Isolated spikes in search volume were further explored to identify a related event. This included limiting the query to the dates corresponding to the spike and assessing the related queries provided by Google Trends as well as searching Google itself for related queries around the same timeframe.
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