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Research Outline
Prepared for Mike w. | Delivered May 21, 2021
Combination Health Needs Data
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Goals
Find websites or tools used to see how search terms overlap, specifically as can be used to see if someone has searched for multiple health needs, or a services or platforms showing data on how many people have combinations of various health needs.
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Early Findings
Data Availability
Initial research suggests that while there are limited options to track a particular user's search patterns, there are other options to understand how many people are searching for more than one health need at once. You'll find more details on these below.
Tracking Google User ID
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The process, while slightly complex, allows for one to
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Google Trends
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allows two search terms to be compared, but does not offer user ID information alongside these stats.
For example, when a user
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you can compare it with the search term 'stress' and get a graph of how interest in these two terms correlate.
Google Trends will also show related search queries. So for example, the most often searched terms in combination with 'plantar
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'torn plantar fascia'.
You can sort related queries
by two metrics
, either most popular related search query or rising query that has the biggest increase in search frequency.
Keyword
While not specific to user ID,
keyword research tools
may also be useful in comparing and understanding what health needs are commonly searched for together.
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related to that health need.
Summary
Within the first hour, we have been able to provide one tool that directly tracks user ID search terms, as well as two alternatives to gain an understanding of the frequency of combinations of certain needs as is visible via search terms.
For a deeper dive, we recommend further research. Details on our recommended research paths have been provided in our proposals below.
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