{"id":4824,"date":"2020-04-20T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/04\/20\/google-is-now-listing-covid-19-testing-centers-in-search-results\/"},"modified":"2020-04-20T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T16:14:00","slug":"google-is-now-listing-covid-19-testing-centers-in-search-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/04\/20\/google-is-now-listing-covid-19-testing-centers-in-search-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Google is now listing COVID-19 testing centers in search results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/B4fIYxFl6XIt1QDWxB-ho0Ve-h4=\/0x0:2040x1360\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/66671082\/acastro_180427_1777_0001.0.jpg\" width=\"533\" height=\"355\" data-pre-sourced=\"yes\" data-sourced=\"yes\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/B4fIYxFl6XIt1QDWxB-ho0Ve-h4=\/0x0:2040x1360\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/66671082\/acastro_180427_1777_0001.0.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/B4fIYxFl6XIt1QDWxB-ho0Ve-h4=\/0x0:2040x1360\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/66671082\/acastro_180427_1777_0001.0.jpg\" \/><\/span><small>Illustration by Alex Castro \/ The Verge<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Google searches for terms related to COVID-19 will now display information for more than 2,000 COVID-19 testing centers across 43 states in the US, the company tells&nbsp;<em>The Verge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are other changes, too. When you search for something related to COVID-19, you&rsquo;ll now see a new &ldquo;Testing&rdquo; tab as part of the information shown in Google&rsquo;s&nbsp;COVID-19 SOS alert. When you click or tap that Testing tab, you&rsquo;ll see a number of resources regarding COVID-19 testing at the top of your search results. Those include: a link to the Centers for Disease Control&rsquo;s (CDC)&nbsp;online COVID-19 symptom checker, a suggestion to talk to a healthcare provider if you think you should be tested, a link to COVID-19 testing information from your local health authorities, and a note that you may need to call ahead to a testing center to make sure you can actually get a test.<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside><q>You won&rsquo;t see listings for testing centers in Connecticut, Maine, Missouri, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Oregon and Pennsylvania<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Testing tab will also show you information about specific testing centers&nbsp;<em>unless<\/em>&nbsp;you&rsquo;re in Connecticut, Maine, Missouri, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Oregon or Pennsylvania, Google tells&nbsp;<em>The Verge.&nbsp;<\/em>That&rsquo;s because Google is only surfacing testing locations that have been approved for publishing by health authorities, the company says. For the same reason, Google is only listing a single testing center located in Albany for the state of New York, but the company expects to add more New York listings soon.<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s what the results look like for me. I&rsquo;m writing this from Portland, OR, so the results don&rsquo;t list testing centers near me.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2\" title=\" \" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/OoPKKl5kd00b3MJutsjVb23T2vA=\/400x0\/filters:no_upscale()\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/19909726\/Screen_Shot_2020_04_17_at_2.39.19_PM.png\" data-pre-sourced=\"yes\" data-sourced=\"yes\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/OoPKKl5kd00b3MJutsjVb23T2vA=\/400x0\/filters:no_upscale()\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/19909726\/Screen_Shot_2020_04_17_at_2.39.19_PM.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/OoPKKl5kd00b3MJutsjVb23T2vA=\/400x0\/filters:no_upscale()\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/19909726\/Screen_Shot_2020_04_17_at_2.39.19_PM.png\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>COVID-19 testing criteria and availability vary based on where you live, which is why Google is pointing toward local information with these resources. The testing information comes from &ldquo;government agencies, public health departments, or directly from healthcare institutions,&rdquo; according to a&nbsp;Google support document.<\/p>\n<p>Google launched a COVID-19 website with information and resources about the pandemic&nbsp;on March 21st. Google&rsquo;s sister company&nbsp;Verily also offers&nbsp;free COVID-19 tests to people in parts of California, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania if they qualify after taking an online screening.<\/p>\n<p>Google isn&rsquo;t the only company working to make it easier to find COVID-19 testing information. Last weekend, Apple launched&nbsp;a website&nbsp;so healthcare providers and labs that offer COVID-19 testing can submit their information and appear in Apple Maps search results as testing sites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/4\/17\/21225828\/google-showing-covid-19-testing-centers-search-results\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/4\/17\/21225828\/google-showing-covid-19-testing-centers-search-results<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>Jay Peters<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/artificial-intelligence-newswire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Artificial Intelligence Newswire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Jay Peters<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illustration by Alex Castro \/ The Verge Google searches for terms related to COVID-19 will now display information for more than 2,000 COVID-19 testing centers across 43 states in the US, the company tells&nbsp;The Verge. There are other changes, too. When you search for something related to COVID-19, you&rsquo;ll now see a new &ldquo;Testing&rdquo; tab &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/04\/20\/google-is-now-listing-covid-19-testing-centers-in-search-results\/\">Continue reading <span>Google is now listing COVID-19 testing centers in search results<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/04\/20\/google-is-now-listing-covid-19-testing-centers-in-search-results\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-newswire","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Google is now listing COVID-19 testing centers in search results - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/04\/20\/google-is-now-listing-covid-19-testing-centers-in-search-results\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google is now listing COVID-19 testing centers in search results - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Illustration by Alex Castro \/ The Verge Google searches for terms related to COVID-19 will now display information for more than 2,000 COVID-19 testing centers across 43 states in the US, the company tells&nbsp;The Verge. 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