Microsoft acquires Powerset
After medstory this time Microsoft acquires Powerset. Via Venture Beat Microsoft is building the right combination, will SiloBreaker be next?Rafael Sidi (Really Simple Sidi)
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Really Simple Sidi (RSS) - June 27, 2008 Author: Rafael Sidi
Tooth Whitening and How to Find Out About It
We received a comment on this blog today.
"Found this website, when I was looking for tooth whitening dentists (albeit a cheap one). But my question is really do the tooth whitening thing works. Can get that hollywood smile."
This is a very common question these days, one that concerns a lot of folk. Now, since we're librarians and not dentists, I am going to talk mostly about how one could search for this topic of interest, just highlighting a few interesting tools and techniques.
Most folks would start with Google. The question is what would you search for? Whiter teeth? Hollywood smile? Teeth whiteners? Tooth whiten...
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Dentistry Library - April 28, 2008 Author: pfa Tags: Information Skills
Google HealthNu ser det ud som om at Google Health skulle være på trapperne. Efter næsten 2 år (klik på linket til Internetsøgning fra 8. maj 2006 nedenfor). Loginsiden virker godt nok ikke, i hvert fald ikke for mig. Men Google Blogoscoped påstår at den skulle være god nok. I mellemtiden må vi så nøjes med hvad introduktionen lokker med.Set med danske briller er det lidt overraskende at se:Lave en personlig helbredsprofil.Downloade patientjournaler fra læger og apoteker.Få personlig helbredsvejledning og nyhederFinde kvalificerede læger.Dele informationer med familie og andre. Der er også nogle skærmbil...
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Internetsøgning - January 28, 2008 Author: Erik Høy
Google and Health
Adam Bosworth leaving Google was interesting news, but somehow not surprising. I'm not sure why, but it struck me that Adam was never that engaged. He was the man behind much of Microsoft's future OS plans, he came to Google, and then he ended up...working on Health? Seemed like a parking spot on the way out, in retrospect.
Now comes rumors that Google might buy WebMD. If I were writing two years ago, I'd say no way. Google isn't in the content/customer service/editorial business. But now, well, I guess I could see it. Things have changed. YouTube was a major move to the "we're a media company" hoop. Though it was entert...
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John Battelle's Searchblog - September 13, 2007 Author: http://fmpub.net/contact.php?to=jb Tags: Media/Tech Business Models
Resources for Cyberchondriacs
Although Microsoft Word still underlines it in red, googling the word cyberchondriac provides 46,800 hits, and the term cyberchondria has had its own Wikipedia entry since June, 2005. It seems that the practice of self-diagnosing medical conditions with the assistance of Dr. Google continues to grow in popularity.
Although health professionals have plenty of online resources at their disposal, specialized search engines are popping up to cater to the demands of laypeople in pursuit of an ailment, a cure, or merely a second opinion. For instance, Healia allows a searcher to filter their results for articles at a basic (or a...
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Slaw - August 21, 2007 Author: Evan VanDyk Tags: Uncategorized
Critiquing Review of Health Search at AltSearchEngines
The brand-new AltSearchEngines blog is off to a great start and I absolutely encourage libraryfolk should subscribe to it.
One of the problems with writing about a specialized kind of search engine is that to do so requires specialized knowledge. AltSearchEngines faces this challenge every day.
A recent post at AltSearchEngines seeks to overcome this problem in writing about health search by soliciting notes on a few sites by a cardiologist and a cardiology nurse.
I love the idea of the post, but not the post itself.
Who did the reviewing
What follows is just general feedback from one nurse and one doctor. Ask ten docto...
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davidrothman.net - June 21, 2007 Author: David Rothman Tags: Technology Search Consumer Health Info For Medical Libraryfolk
Meredith Corporation Acquiring Healia
We knew that Microsoft was acquiring medstory- today we learn that Healia is being acquired by the Meredith Corporation.
Details here.
Should we perhaps be expecting more acquisitions of healthcare information vortals? How will such acquisitions and the heating up of this particular market impact the quality of search available to healthcare consumers from such vortals?
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davidrothman.net - June 18, 2007 Author: David Rothman Tags: Technology Search Consumer Health Info For Medical Libraryfolk
Alternatives to Google?
There are a lot of players in the search field to provide a much better and meaningful search experience to users, and present us insights instead of just search results. So far what I am interested is a combination of Google, medstory, Powerset and SilobreakerRafael Sidi (Really Simple Sidi)
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Really Simple Sidi (RSS) - June 18, 2007 Author: Rafael
Web 2.0: de wildgroei aan toepassingen in kaart gebracht
Een einde aan de wildgroei van web 2.0-toepassingen is voorlopig nog niet in zicht. Elke dag melden zich tientallen nieuwkomers in de hoop dat zij zullen uitgroeien tot een lieveling van het grote internetpubliek.Het is ondoenlijk om al die toepassingen en websites te testen, daar zijn het er simpelweg te veel voor. Ik vertrouw doorgaans op de selecties die websites als TechCrunch en Mashable maken. Ik heb een aantal van dergelijke sites verzameld in een Netvibes-tabblad en pik daar af en toe eens een tip uit. Als ik gericht naar een toepassing zoek maar ik meestal gebruik van Listible, een site die 2.0-toepassingen op ov...
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Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek - June 16, 2007 Author: Edwin Mijnsbergen
JMLA Reviews of TRIP, Healia and Medstory
Turning Research Into Practice (TRIP)
Trina Fyfe
J Med Libr Assoc. 2007 April; 95(2): 215–216. doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.95.2.215.
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Healia
Donna Timm
J Med Libr Assoc. 2007 April; 95(2): 219–221. doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.95.2.219.
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medstory
Patricia F. Anderson
J Med Libr Assoc. 2007 April; 95(2): 221–224. doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.95.2.221.
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davidrothman.net - April 19, 2007 Author: David Rothman Tags: Technology Search Consumer Health Info For Medical Libraryfolk
Microsoft grows in searching
Microsoft as a search company on the way of committed searching? News from business world report that the Redmond software house has bought medstory, a health-related search engine. But what’s going on? ZDNet states the main purpose of Microsoft in this acquisition is to make research on intelligent searching…
“medstory, which is based in Foster City, Calif., operates a search engine–currently in beta–that is geared toward the needs of consumers and health professionals who are looking for information on medical topics. Search results are divided into categories of information relevant to the ...
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The Geek Librarian - February 28, 2007 Author: bonaria Tags: Library Tools Web Tools Search Engines
Microsoft to Acquire Medstory
I’m clearly no fan of medstory, but it still caught my attention to hear (via Resource Shelf) that medstory will be acquired by Microsoft.
It isn’t the first time Microsoft has acquired a health care information technology company.
If Microsoft is getting into the health vortal business, lets hope they dramatically improve medstory and make something really useful.
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medstory: Not even close.
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davidrothman.net - February 26, 2007 Author: David Rothman Tags: Technology Search Consumer Health Info For Medical Libraryfolk
Medstory
medstory is a search engine that specializes in health and medical topics. It is about to be purchased by Microsoft, so it is positioned to become one of the premiere medical sites online. Enter a term to search and you don't just get the list of websites, but you have the option to refine your search either by selecting drugs, conditions, procedures, or personal health. If you click the Research tab at the top, you will find connections to clinical studies, experts, and fields of study like molecular biology and anatomy. It is a very nice presentation of information offering a variety of ways to lo...
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Sites and Soundbytes - February 26, 2007 Author: saecker
Medstory: Not even close.
Well, a number of other bibliobloggers are pointing out medstory, and I was going to avoid doing the same until I tried it.
I can’t take seriously any health information vortal that includes Wikipedia and returns a Wikipedia page as the top result for my search on pseudomembranous colitis AHEAD of MedlinePlus.
It is far from a complete analysis of a health vortal to run one search and draw assumptions based on the top few results, but including a wikipedia result as the first result indicates a critical failure of those who created to vortal to understand what is important in the selection of consumer healthcare information.
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davidrothman.net - January 25, 2007 Author: David Rothman Tags: Technology Search Blogging Consumer Health Info For Medical Libraryfolk
Un de plus, pour ne pas oublier : Medstory BETA
Voici encore un moteur de recherche concernant le domaine de la santé. On a
raté la version ALPHA, il y a de quoi perdre son latin... son grec, plutôt
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medstory - Intelligent Search for Health & Medicine
http://www.medstory.com/
On peut, comme chaque fois que le mot intelligence apparaît, se demander où
se trouve effectivement l'intelligence...
Spécialisé dans la recherche sur la santé, ce moteur permet en particulier
l'utilisation de fils RSS et comporte un certain nombre de filtres spécialisés
dont un sur les "essais cliniques" à manier avec précaution.
"medstory's mission is to enable...
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Le Babouin - January 23, 2007 Author: Gilbert Tags: Documentation médicale
Medstory
Thanks Biomedbiblog
medstory - Intelligent Search for Health & Medicine
http://www.medstory.com/
“medstory's mission is to enable users to search complex fields on
the Web intelligently. We're starting with health and medicine – an
area where many people will appreciate a service that helps them
quickly get high value information, and a field where we have expertise
based on our work with health-related organizations.
To
us, providing intelligent search means supporting an understanding of
both a user's intent behind a search and the results that are
delivered. For a field like health and medi...
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medinfo - January 18, 2007 Author: ob Tags: From other blogs
Medstory
(Edwin was me net even te vlug af: dat kan blijkbaar ook. En op het eerste gezicht ziet het er echt aardig uit:)
medstory - Intelligent Search for Health & Medicine
http://www.medstory.com/
"medstory's mission is to enable users to search complex fields on
the Web intelligently. We're starting with health and medicine – an
area where many people will appreciate a service that helps them
quickly get high value information, and a field where we have expertise
based on our work with health-related organizations.
To
us, providing intelligent search means supporting an understanding of
both a user's in...
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Biomedbiblog - January 17, 2007 Tags: biomedbiblog.blogse.nl
New Health Search Engine: Medstory
"There's a new kid in townI don't want to hear itThere's a new kid in townI don't want to hear it"There are so many different health search engines available, you might very well be tired of hearing about the new ones. They start up, do very little new, and fail, quietly fading away. Most people just use Google, and why not?For myself, it has been a long time since I was really excited about a new Internet search engine focusing on health. But. (You knew there was going to be a "but", didn't you?) But now there is medstory.This new kid in town is following in the footsteps of such other hot new players as Kosmix, ClusterMe...
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Marginal Space - October 25, 2006 Tags: searching professional healthcare
