1999 Update: Search Test


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For our 1999 update, we took a new approach, testing 26 health information search engines and megasites, and comparing the quality of search retrieval against that of 26 general search engines. A more complete discussion of our methodology and results is available in our chapter in the Faulkner and Gray publication, Healthcare on the Internet 2000 edited by Paul Engstrom.

List of Sites Evaluated

Search Strategies Used

Results by Site

Tips for Successful Searching

Results by Question

1999 Best Search Engines


BioSites
CliniWeb
Galaxy
GHN
Health on the Net Foundation
Health A to Z
Healthfinder
HealthLinks
HealthWeb
Martindale's
Magellan
MedExplorer
Medfinder
Medical Matrix
Medical World Search
MedWeb
Multimedia Medical Reference Library
NOAH
OMNI
Health Sciences Library, U of Pittsburgh
Virtual Hospital
WebDoctor
WWW Virtual Library: Biosciences: Medicine
Yahoo Health

URL of current page: http://www.umich.edu/~pfa/megasite/99srch.html
Last updated: September 27, 1999.
Copyright 1997, 1998, 1999, P. F. Anderson, Nancy Allee, Jean Chung, Brian Westra, Virginia Lingle.