AUDIO: GOOGLE WILL ASK IF YOU’RE DEPRESSED

From now on, when users do a Google search for depression or depression-related terms, the site will prompt U.S. users: “Check if you’re clinically depressed.” Users will then be directed to a clinically validated questionnaire to measure their level of depression, Google explained on its blog. Google has partnered with the National Alliance on Mental Illness to create the self-evaluation and hopes the confidential survey will spur more people to broach the subject with their doctor.
* I’m sitting here all alone looking to a computer for interpersonal feedback. OF COURSE I’M DEPRESSED, YOU IDIOT!
* By asking your doctor, it puts you back into America’s health care system, which will make you REALLY depressed.
* A confidential survey from Google – in the news Tuesday for secretly recording your cellphone conversations. (Story: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/4295350/did-you-know-google-has-been-secretly-recording-you-heres-how-to-find-the-creepy-audio-files-that-are-monitoring-your-conversations-every-day/)
* Google creeps me out, and as for Bing, I hate Microsoft. On the bright side, my next two professional-sounding search engine choices are DuckDuckGo and Dogpile.
* Dogpile? Seriously? As in what they leave on your lawn?
* Google can do something similar with other topics. If you Google anything related to sex, Google will give you this prompt: (play audio below)
CLIP: Austin Powers “Do I make you horny, baby?”