Medical Search Engine Identifies Rare Diseases
April 3, 2013
Specialized search engines are often used to located subject-specific professional or academic information in databases. Certain professions are used to shying away from the open web for fear of retrieving poor quality information. However, a new project is proving that quality medical information can be retrieved from the open web. Read more about FindZebra.com in the article, “New Medical Search Engine Quickly IDs Rare Diseases.”
The article states:
“In medical school, students are taught to concentrate on more common diseases, not ‘zebras’–slang for a surprising diagnosis. Now, the zebras have taken to the web at FindZebra.com, a new search engine for medical professionals which navigates the web quickly to identify rare and genetic diseases. Researchers . . . sought out to assess how well web search engines, such as Google, work for diagnostic queries, and what contributes to web research success or failure. The results determined that FindZebra outperformed Google Search. The authors concluded that a specialized search engine can improve online diagnostic quality without a loss of ease of use that popular search engines possess.”
It seems that quality results can be retrieved easily. This is the ultimate aim of search, quick, effective, and easy. LucidWorks aims to achieve the same goal in the much more difficult environment of enterprise search. Their expertise combines solid open source infrastructure, built on Lucene/Solr, with award winning customer support.
Emily Rae Aldridge, April 3, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search
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