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"Online health search has cultivated a bit of hypochondria in us all, sometimes more so than those television commercials run by large pharmaceutical companies.  But overall, the world can only benefit from the access to widespread knowledge.  Recently funded semantic search engine Hakia is making this a better experience by providing top results from verified, credible resources, so users can be sure about the information they're reading.  \n\nEnsuring the quality of top results is something every search engine aims to do, but it seems particularly important for health search, especially as online search becomes more niche, and user-generated content is being more readily layered into the equation.  What's more, is that we're seeing an increase of activity from established authorities in various industries, including the health industry, that are using online platforms for communicating and networking with others, sharing personal views, and participating in larger discussions about related topics.  \nHakia is hoping to avoid the plight of the limited perspective that general searches provide with popular results, effectively tweaking its algorithm in a major way so that the quality of a search result is determined by other factors.  By verifying resources that have been approved by the Medical Library Association, Hakia is passing the quality of its search results onto its users.  Used as an alternative or even in conjunction with other health-related search tools out there, Hakia will likely apply such QA to other facets of its social, semantic search engine."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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