Search Engines: Health & Medical Search Engines
Bing UK now displaying National Health Service data for GP & hospital search queries
Searching for nearby GPs and hospitals on Bing UK will surface information pulled from the country's publicly-funded national healthcare system....
Study: Researchers Blame Google Flu Trends Inaccuracies On Ongoing Algorithm Updates
Researchers at Northeastern University in Boston claim the regular overestimation of flu cases by Google Flu Trends can be blamed on...
77 Percent Of Online Health Seekers Start At Search Engines [Pew Study]
Although there’s long been a debate over the accuracy of health information online, many U.S. Internet users aren’t hesitant to use...
Where’s It Hurt? After You Search For A Symptom, New Google Health Search Results Suggest Causes
Roughly 100 million people in the US search for health information on a monthly basis, according to 2011 comScore data. Google has seen these...
Walmart Buys Former Search Engine Kosmix To Power Social And Mobile Shopping
For those who follow search it was initially one of those “WTF moments”: Walmart acquiring erstwhile Google challenger Kosmix....
Avvo Expands Into Doctor Search & Ratings
Avvo, the popular lawyers’ directory, is expanding into the medical industry today with a new directory of US-based doctors. The company...
Doctors Warn Against Relying Too Much On Google
Chances are good that you’ve searched for health-related information via Google, Yahoo, Bing, or some of the other health-specific...
Google Flu Trends Is Under The Weather, Study Says
Google can do a lot of things, but a new study says it can’t estimate flu activity across the United States with a high degree of...
8 Crazy-Cool Search Engines You Should Know
Move over Google, Yahoo, and Bing; blended results or not, personalized search, Twitter results and OneBoxes … you guys are just too...
Following Shopping, Yahoo Partly Outsources Health Vertical To Healthline
The Yahoo strategy of outsourcing content and technology continues. According to a press release, Healthline will support and augment the...
Google Flu Shot Locator Shows Where To Get Vaccines Near You!
Looking for where to get a seasonal flu shot or that hard-to-find vaccine against H1N1 swine flu? Google has a new flu shot locator that can...
NetBase Debuts “Semantic Search Showcase” With HealthBase
Netbase is an enterprise-facing software and search company that appears to have one of the most advanced search platforms in the market....
Healthline Adds New Doctor, Treatment Search Tools To Site
The American healthcare system is very broken, in my opinion and in the opinion of many others. Health insurance carriers and providers hold...
Dilbert’s Scott Adams: Will Google Replace Your Doctor?
Can a search engine accurately diagnose health problems? Can it someday replace your doctor? Questions like this aren’t new, but the...
Cyberchondria: When Web Search Makes You Sick(er)
Those muscle twitches you get probably aren’t a sign that you have ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, aka “Lou Gehrig’s...
Who’s Got The Flu? Google Flu Trends Reveal State-By-State Activity
Wondering if it’s just you or if others have the flu, too? Google’s announced a new tool that tells you. Google Flu Trends allows...