Google Makes It Easy For People To Find Vaccine Service Information

Google Indonesia helps ensure that the public can access authoritative and up-to-date information about viruses, vaccines, and emergency protocols. (doc. google)

JAKARTA - Vaccine services organized by the government and other parties have received enough attention from the people of Indonesia. Based on data released by Google Indonesia from the Trends feature, in the period 19 to 28 July, many Indonesians searched for information on Google about vaccines.

Not only that, but they are also still looking for information regarding COVID-19, emergency protocols, and self-isolation activities. Google Trends is a tool for viewing search trends by showing how often a given search term is entered into the Google search engine relative to the site's total search volume over a given period of time.

When the Government activated the process of implementing large-scale vaccinations, together with the Indonesian Ministry of Health (Kemenkes RI) and the COVID-19 Control and National Economic Recovery Committee (KCP-PEN), Google Indonesia helped ensure that the public could access authoritative and up-to-date information about viruses, vaccines, and the latest emergency protocols to protect the health of yourself and others.

To help people find credible information, Google launched an information panel in the Search tool that appears for queries related to the COVID vaccine. This panel provides consolidated information such as a summary of vaccine types, effectiveness, safety, distribution, side effects, and more.

The panels are available in Indonesian and English. This information comes from relevant local and global authoritative sources, including covid19.go.id, the website of the Food and Drug Supervisory Agency (pom.go.id), the Indonesian Ministry of Health (kemkes.go.id), the World Health Organization (who int), and more.

In addition to displaying more than 157 COVID-19 referral hospitals and testing centers on Google Search and Maps, Google also provides location information for more than 1,000 vaccination centers in 70 cities throughout Java and adds a vaccine registration button at locations that provide online registration. All these features are available in English and Indonesian.