Niche Search Engines & Portals
I just came across a site called Organized Wisdom which calls itself a “human powered health search” service guided by physicians. I find Organized Wisdom interesting because it’s a nice search engine that has come about due to the overcrowding of Google (MSN & Yahoo too) that I believe will be the future of search engines.
Currently when using Google you get a ton of results – some are relevant and others are not. What Organized Wisdom does is weed through all the crap to give you results from (and links to) the best health care information on the internet. Similar to how Mahalo is a “human powered search engine” (DMOZ and About.com sort of too) Organized Wisdom is one too. Though you can argue that a lot of these niche search engines aren’t much different then the early portals which is partly true but they also provide site specific searches that the portals lacked. Of course a lot of these portals, Organized Wisdom too, use Google to do a site specific search. Google is still the best for indexing every line of information on any given website however they are definitely getting overcrowded. These niche portals/search engines can pick and choose which websites are the information authorities and let Google spider and index all the information from those particular sites.
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