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Google scraps ‘What people suggest’ feature that pulled health tips from Reddit using AI

Ben Schoon | Mar 17 2026 - 7:30 am PT

Google has pulled the plug on a “What people suggest” feature in Search that would use AI to summarize health tips from real users on Reddit and other communities online.

Launched in early 2025, “What people suggest” arrived as a way for Google Search to include not just traditional search results for queries such as “Why does my leg hurt?,” but also suggestions from real people. The idea, as Google pitched it at the time, was to “organize different perspectives from online discussions into easy-to-understand themes, helping you quickly grasp what people are saying” with the help of AI. The feature would largely source information from Reddit, Twitter/X, Quora, and other online forums.

Roughly a year later, the feature is dead.

Google confirmed to The Guardian that “What people suggest” has been removed from Search. Google explained:

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This feature was turned down months ago as part of a broader simplification of the search results page, which we shared publicly.

The “public” sharing of this was a brief post from November 2025 where Google explained that it had “identified some features that aren’t being used very often and aren’t adding significant value to users… So we’re beginning to phase these lesser-used features out.” That post never speciifcally outlined that “What people suggest” would be included in the removals.

A spokesperson further added that the removal of “What people suggest” was not due to quality or safety, apparently:

…It had nothing to do with the quality or safety of the feature, and we continue to help people find reliable health information from a range of sources, including forums with first-person perspectives that people find incredibly useful.

This comes after prior reports found that AI Overviews were spitting out misleading health advice, to which Google seemingly disabled AI results on certain health-related queries.