Be careful of ‘quack cures’ on Google

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I’d like to add a note of caution to Peter

Setter’s enthusiasm for searching Google for help researching medical conditions (Letters, Issue 602). The problem is quite simple: there are a lot of quack cures out there ranging from those who are sincere but wrong to those who just want to con other people.

I’ve been impressed by how defiantly Google and other tech firms have clamped down on Covid misinformation since the pandemic struck. They’ve stuck to it despite what I’d call bullying from conspiracy theorists. I’m hoping this new zero-tolerance policy will be applied to other forms of pseudo-medicine, like homeopathy. For example, asking Google ‘Does homeopathy work?’ should result in a big, bold ‘No’ as the first result. sstreamed from my phone to the speakers.

Google has told me that these services are not like for like, and to listen to my own music I now need to subscribe for £9.99 a month. So I’m now looking for alternatives. Do smart speakers with storage exist that don’t need to be subscribed to?

Boo to you Google and all your discounted speakers. It’s a very underhanded way of milking money from customers. a complete blank with the exception of finding his mother’s name and his date of birth. I researched ‘Tryphook’ (being such an unusual surname) and found an army officer in Southsea at that time by the name of Simon Bagge Tryphook.

Percy Cornish’s mother was working in Southsea just before his birth, so I think there can be no doubt who the father was, and that his complete name was given to his offspring with just one minor spelling difference. She obviously wanted to ensure that there would be no doubt as to her son’s parentage in future years!