Google’s coronavirus website seems underwhelming, but it’s what many need right now

[Chris Smith]

• Google's information website for the novel coronavirus went live over the weekend, featuring handy information about the COVID-19 pandemic.
• The site isn't the resource Trump promised to be, but it's precisely what many people may need right now, especially when it comes to combating fake news campaigns with accurate, succinct coronavirus information.
• The website doesn't offer information about coronavirus testing locations, or a way for users to sign up for tests.
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Google announced a few days ago that it was building Trump's coronavirus website it didn't know it was building. Google's announcement came a couple of days after the president declared COVID-19 a national emergency and revealed that Google was developing what sounded like a massive resource to assist the government during the coronavirus outbreak. "Google is helping to develop a website. It's gonna be very quickly done — unlike websites of the past — to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location," Trump said, adding that Google had "1,700 engineers" on it and that they've made significant progress. It turned out that Google had no coronavirus in development at the time of the press conference.

Since then, however, Google developed a COVID-19 website, which was launched over the weekend. It hardly looks as sophisticated as Trump may have lead you to believe, but it's exactly the resource many people might need right now.

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