Microsoft To Buy Health Search Engine Medstory Inc.
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 […]
Barry Schwartz on February 26, 2007 at 4:31 pm | Reading time: 1 minute
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.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.