Searching for Health Information Online, a Survey. People interested in health information have been using the Internet to search ever since it became available to the general public. Per the Pew Research Center (2005), at least 80% of Internet users had looked for health information online by the year 2002. That number is nearly identical to a study conducted in 2018, where 79.12% of respondents said they had used the Internet to look for health information for themselves within the previous twelve months. Additionally, 41.01% of respondents had used the Internet for healthcare decisions, and 39.37% said they had used it for discussions with healthcare providers (Taya & Chuang, 2025). These facts lead to the questions: “How do people look for online health information?” “How do they evaluate the health information that they view online?” and finally, “how comfortable are they with AI applications providing health information?” Methodology The ...