Health Search Engine OrganizedWisdom
OrganizedWisdom Health is a human-powered, doctor-guided search service for health. The site provides reviewed search result pages, called WisdomCards.
Wisdom Cards are available for the most popular health search terms and phrases without the clutter, redundant links or index spam typically found in search engines. Each WisdomCard provides useful links and resources for any health topic. They’re created by OrganizedWisdom Guides and reviewed by doctors to make sure they are spam-free and organized. In addition to filtering out the bad links, WisdomCards highlight tips and warnings, such as Guide Favorite, Guide Warning and In Memoriam.
OrganizedWisdom helped ignite the Health 2.0 revolution with several “firsts” including the first company to assemble a team of health guides and physicians to organize the world’s best health wisdom from across the Web. Today, OrganizedWisdom continues to bring innovation to online health care by leveraging social media and the power of collaboration technologies to improve the quality of health search.
OrganizedWisdom was founded in 2006 by Steven Krein and Unity Stoakes because they were frustrated with wading through cluttered search results on machine-generated search engines trying to find what they were looking for, especially credible user-generated health content.
Health search, like many other categories (although with much higher stakes) has become a time-consuming trial and error process, featuring clutter from people selling things, spam-infested search results masquerading as authentic sites (known as “index spam”), and duplicative links to redundant libraries of licensed health content.
It shouldn’t be a time consuming process to quickly find links to the very best resources when searching for health information. So, they are solving this problem by adding the wisdom of trained expert search guides and physician reviewers to the power of algorithmic-only search tools and social bookmarking sites. This human-powered model helps them deliver superior health search results by eliminating search index spam from low-quality websites, links to duplicated libraries of licensed health content or potentially dangerous web sites.
