David vs. the Goliaths: A Specialized Metasearch Engine Makes its Debut
A new medical metasearch engine vows to keep out the snakeoil salesmen while carving out its own niche against the major search engines.
Sibiu, Romania (PRWEB) July 15, 2004 -- As Google gears up for it's billion
dollar IPO, and MSN beta tests their long awaited search engine,
OmniMedicalSearch.com, a medical metasearch engine, is making its debut this
week.
Targeted for both the general public and medical professionals,
OmniMedicalSearch.com covers 25 databases including authoritative medical search
engines, image libraries and the latest health and medical news.
Unlike
the search engines Google, Yahoo and others, a metasearch engine sends a search
term query to multiple search engines and returns the top results from each
search engine. It does not maintain it's own
database.
OmniMedicalSearch.com search options include:
* 12
Medical Search Engines (Default Search)
* 8 Health and Medical News
Sources
* 5 Medical Image Libraries
* MedPro Search for medical
professionals.
* Basic Search for the general public.
* Related Search
Options.
* Single Site Search Focus.
* One-Click Dictionary look
up.
Surfers can also take advantage of many serendipitous information
tools offered which include:
* Acronym Search powered by Medilexicon
*
Dictionary Search powered by OneLook
* Medical Association Mini-Directory
(150 and counting)
* Medical Journal Mini-Directory - (250 and counting)
*
72 Searchable Medical Databases
OmniMedicalSearch.com features a
streamlined design and clean interface to speed downloading time.
"My
primary concerns are speed, user satisfaction, and presenting relevant results
from reliable, unbiased sources," founder Jason Morrow said. "After that,
nothing else matters."
Morrow's search engine faces a tough challenge
against the big players like Google, Yahoo and MSN.
"Those are great
search engines but their search results churn up a lot of commercial, biased and
spam laden websites when one is trying to do serious research," Morrow said. "I
don't really view the major search engines as competition. I feel like we are in
our own little niche area. The databases OMS queries were carefully selected to
provide users with reliable and definitive information from reputable
sources."
By keeping his medical metasearch engine focused on "reputable
sources," Morrow hopes to keep out the snake oil salesmen and scam artists. "The
internet can be a great source for information and it can also be a very bad
place to get information," he said. "This is never more true then with health
and medical information where unsound advice can compromise one's
health."
Morrow also explained that web surfers should not rely on one
search tool alone. "I don't think there is one search engine that can do it all
and be the best at every type of search," he said. "OmniMedicalSearch.com
provides great results for reliable medical information and should be one more
search platform added to everyone's Favorite's Folder."
There are no
fees, registration or requirements of any kind to use
OmniMedicalSearch.com.
SofterLogic, a UK based company, developed the
software program for OmniMedicalSearch.com. Morrow is an American citizen doing
volunteer work in Romania.
Media Contact:
Jason Morrow
(US
Citizen)
Sibiu, Romania
e-mail protected from spam bots
40269-44-64-81
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Interviews can be arranged over Yahoo IM or Mr. Morrow can
make a pre-arranged international call to the USA.
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/7/prweb141182.htm