Are Google or Yahoo a good portal for getting quality healthcare web information?

We examined the ranks of 50 award-won health websites in Taiwan against the search results of two popular portals with 6 common diseases. The results showed that the portal search results do not rank the quality web sites reasonably.

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Published in:AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings 2006, Vol.2006, p.878-878
Main Authors: Chang, Polun, Hou, I-Ching, Hsu, Chiao-Ling, Lai, Hsiang-Fen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Health Education
Information Services - standards
Information Storage and Retrieval - methods
Internet
Quality Assurance, Health Care
Taiwan
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Summary:We examined the ranks of 50 award-won health websites in Taiwan against the search results of two popular portals with 6 common diseases. The results showed that the portal search results do not rank the quality web sites reasonably.
ISSN:1559-4076