YouTube has announced that it will add a section called ‘Personal Stories’ to the platform for health-related searches. This section will display videos of people who have experienced and experienced these diseases in front of users searching for specific health issues.
Popular video sharing platform YouTubecontinues to bring new features to improve the user experience. Finally, the platform, which brings the option to add ‘voiceover’, which we are familiar with from TikTok, to the ‘Shorts’ section, now in good health announced that it has made a new move for relevant search results.
In the announcement made today, it was stated that a new section will be added to improve users’ health-related searches. ‘Personal Stories’ This section, called this section, will display videos of people suffering from certain health conditions when they are searched.
Users will be shown the experiences of people who have had the disease
Let’s open the new feature of YouTube a little more. The videos that will appear in the ‘Personal Stories’ sectionHow do I live with this disease?’, ‘How did other people live with it?’, ‘Will my illness get better?’, ‘How can I support my loved ones in these matters?’ and will help you find answers to many other frequently asked questions. In other words, users will be able to easily access the stories of people with the specified health problem with the newly added feature.
The platform has announced that the ‘Personal Stories’ section in the promotion of the feature for now. cancer, anxiety and depression He stated that he would show such topics as it could be used in the USA. In the future, it was stated that the scope of the feature will expand and be made available in other regions.
In its statements on the subject, YouTube requires the videos to be suitable for this section. includes lived experiences in certain physical and mental health conditions should told. It was stated that promotional content is not suitable for the feature. Also, all your videos are about health. preventing the spread of disinformation It was also added to the explanations that it would comply with the policies.
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The dev app says the videos will prevent the spread of misinformation. However, like on other platforms during the COVID-19 outbreak, YouTube is also concerned about disinformation. has been subject to criticism. We will see in the coming days how well the platform can moderate the videos in the ‘Personal Stories’ section and whether it will receive criticism.
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https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/29/youtube-will-show-personal-stories-of-patients-in-search-results-for-health-related-queries/