Microsoft to Buy Health Information Search Engine at the New York Times reports that Microsoft is buying the Medstory health search engine.
Microsoft plans on building out a specialized search engine focused on delivering medical information to consumers, the story reports.
There are a number of health search engines including the leader: WebMD, RevolutionHealth, Google is working one up with Adam Bosworth, and some smaller players.
Postscript: Here is the Microsoft press release.
Related Topics: Microsoft: Other Search | Search Engines: Health & Medical Search Engines
Actually, WebMD doesn’t have a search engine, they use Google on their site. A few of the smaller players like Healia have some neat features. Revolution Health and WebMD are portals more than search engines.
WebMD stats for traffic are impressive. I had a presentation given to me when requested about marketing on thier website for a client. This could definatley be a good and smart move from microsoft to add to its portfolio. With MSN performing as it is, they need whatever they can get.
Great.
Step 2 – acquire a first rate blog search engine and create options to merge it with news and then please put the link on the front page to the left of news like I explain here”>http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/01/29/making-it-easier-for-blogs-to-link-to-blogs-instead-of-news-sites/“>here
nice information