Internet Searches for Medical Symptoms Before Seeking Information on 12-Step Addiction Treatment Programs: A Web-Search Log Analysis

George Nitzburg   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Ingmar Weber   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Elad Yom-Tov   ^{3, 4, 5 *} , PhD

¹ Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States

² Social Computing Department, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar

³ Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, United States

⁴ Microsoft Research, Herzeliya, Israel

⁵ Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

*all authors contributed equally