HealthBase semantic search is very positive about the Semantic Web

Tim Finin, 11:26pm 3 September 2009

HealthBase is a ‘semantic search engine’ for healthcare information that is driven by content mined from “millions of authoritative health sources” including WebMD, Wikipedia, PubMed, and Mayo Clinic’s health site. Techcrunch first described it as the ultimate medical content search engine but then had a follow up article reporting that HealthBase thinks you can get rid of jews with alcohol and salt. Language Log had some more fun exploring HealthBase.

We thought we’d see what HealthBase thought of the Semantic Web and it turns out that if you are experiencing the Semantic Web as a condition there are several recommended treatments.

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and as a treatment itself, HealthBase is pretty positive.

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Categories: NLP, sEARCH, Semantic Web Comments: one

One Response to “HealthBase semantic search is very positive about the Semantic Web”

Michael Uschold Says:
September 9th, 2009 at 12:49 am
Great work Tim! Very amusing. I wonder if they found Semantic Web in PubMed or Mayo Clinic…

I did more mundane things like find pros and cons of resveratrol or aloe vera, which gives decent answers. HealthBase seems a bit like PowerSet for the medical vertical – a good idea. Probably more people will find it immediately useful.