Product design question

You’re a PM at Google. Design a product for pets.

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What this question tests

Product design leveraging a large platform's core strengths, search and data, for a lifestyle category outside its usual products.

Clarify the angle: a Google product for pets most plausibly extends Google's strengths in search, maps, and AI rather than pet hardware.
Segment pet owner needs: finding nearby pet services like vets and groomers, understanding pet health symptoms, and organizing pet care records.
Identify the gap: pet owners currently search fragmented sources for symptom checking, local services, and care history with no unified, trustworthy source.
Prioritize AI assisted pet health guidance and local service discovery, since these map directly to Google's Search and Maps strengths.
Propose a Google Pets product: symptom checking guidance backed by veterinary sourced information with clear it's not a diagnosis framing, integrated with Maps for finding nearby vets, and a simple health record log.
Define success as usage of the symptom guidance feature and conversion to booking a nearby vet appointment through Maps integration.

Grounds the product in Google's actual strengths, search, Maps, and AI, rather than proposing hardware or an unrelated pet product.
Identifies a real, common pain point, fragmented pet health and service information, that Google is well positioned to solve.
Gives an illustrative number, for example assuming 25 percent of symptom guidance users go on to book a nearby vet visit.
Addresses liability and trust explicitly, framing health guidance as informational, not diagnostic, given the real risk of bad pet health advice.

Proposing pet hardware or a tracking device, ignoring that Google's actual strength is search, maps, and AI, not consumer hardware.
Ignoring the liability risk of AI generated health guidance for animals without a clear not a diagnosis framing.

How would you ensure the symptom guidance doesn't discourage necessary vet visits by seeming too reassuring?
How would you source and validate the veterinary information behind the guidance?