Healia – The Health Related Search Engine

Many times when I am looking online for a health related topic, I get so frustrated at the quality of search results that I find. Recently I discovered a search engine specifically for health related topics and so far I have been pleased with the results. The search engine is Healia.

Healia – an award-winning consumer health search engine – provides high quality and personally relevant search results. Originally developed over more than four years under a competitive award from the National Cancer Institute, Healia offers:

• High quality results, delivered via patent-pending “Quality Index” algorithms. In an independent, blinded trial, physicians at a major university rated Healia significantly higher than Google™ in the overall quality of health search results.
• Intelligent search. Numerous sophisticated underlying technologies enable users to search more effectively and efficiently.
• Personalized results. Results are categorized by gender, age group, reading level, and many other attributes of Web pages. It’s the only search engine on the Web that allows users to search using multiple page attributes.

Healia also has the Healia PubMed / Medline search engine which is currently in beta. PubMed/Medline includes more than 17 million abstracts and citations from life science journals.

And if you are looking for even more discussion on health topics, the team at Healia has a blog with news, insight and discussion on some of the latest health related issues.

One more bonus! If you are a web publisher with a health related site, you can have your site put into a rotating link on the Healia search results page.

And for those of you who are wondering, no, this is not a paid review of the Healia service. I discovered it last week ,  have been using it myself and felt it was a great resource for my audience.  I encourage you to try out their search engine and let me know what you think!