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There should be an option for special case emergency videos. One's that don't play with ads and show up as top results.

The video would have to be reviewed before receiving said ranking.

I couldn't imagine a lot of uploaders would abuse this as they wouldn't get paid.

Of course the question is, what's in it for Google? You've probably noticed when you search a disease, it provides a nice result with graphics and dialogs. Although I don't know if they'd be interesting in preserving that image over to Youtube, as that place is a cesspool for content creation, whatever that means...

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> should be

Why? And what other platforms "should" do this? Do phone OSs have to have CPR videos embedded for quick access?

Seems clear to me these are edge cases that certainly do not warrant legislation. The world has much bigger problems to work on.

>Why?

Because during an emergency, someone shouldn't have to watch an ad when accessing life saving information. That would drive anyone mad.

>And what other platforms "should" do this? Do phone OSs have to have CPR videos embedded for quick access?

Not quite sure where you're going with this speculation, but I wouldn't exactly call a medical emergency an "edge case", maybe that's just me.

YouTube being used as your source of emergency medical information is an edge case. Certainly isn't a routine or even tertiary use case for the place where we watch reaction videos and SNL clips.

You don't ask book stores to provide quick access to medical books in case of an emergency.

>we watch reaction videos and SNL clips

College lectures, cooking videos, work out instructions, car repair instructions, guitar covers, I could go all day.

It is a video sharing platform, and the most popular one at that. Entertainment might be the most popular use case of the site, but it's still a tool for accessing information.

>You don't ask book stores to provide quick access to medical books in case of an emergency.

Of course not, the person would be dead before you got there lol.

My whole argument is that YouTube is very often used as a tool for quickly accessing information, so it would be really beneficial to provide something that could save lives, what is the problem with that? From a business perspective, it might even be a good PR stunt.

Phone OS do most definitely have emergency services features allowing you to bypass normal OS functionality, yes.

Similarly, if you want to own the worlds information, you have certain responsibilities because people will go to you in an emergency.

They allow you to call 911 (the designated emergency service), they don't give you a video of CPR. What's your point here?

Why only phones? Why not desktop OS too? Why not have each Linux monitor all written text and even keep mic open and if relevant terms are noticed automatically launch some tutorial or information. Locally stored of course as there isn't always Internet available.

Might even make sense to stream it to some central AI service so we can ensure that it really gets triggered?

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