“Dr. Google,” the nickname for the search engine that answers hundreds of millions of health questions every day, has begun including advice from the general public in some of its answers. The “What People Suggest” feature, presented as a response to user demand, comes at a pivotal point for traditional web search amid the growing popularity of artificial intelligence-enabled chatbots such as ChatGPT.

The new feature, currently available only to U.S. mobile users, is populated with content culled, analyzed and filtered from online discussions at sites such as Reddit, Quora and X.