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Google has changed its automatic search suggestions that are prompted by a query on how to commit suicide, reports The New York Times. The search giant now includes an icon of a red phone and the toll-free number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
Chief Health Strategist for Google Dr. Roni Zeiger told the Times that this change is only the second time Google has “added such guidance on troubling search terms.” The first time was a few months ago when Google added a phone number for the national poison control hotline for searches related to the phrase “poison emergency.”
According to Zeiger, “A mother wrote in a suggestion to us — her daughter had swallowed something that she thought was dangerous, and she had a hard time finding poison control. Now when you search for poison control or similar queries, we make it straightforward to find the number for poison control.”
