A recent paper made the point that Google can be a fairly effective tool in medical diagnoses. My beef: The results could have been better, but the keywords used in the study weren’t that great. Try for yourself and see if you can diagnose the following disorders better than did the BMJ authors. Click for a larger version of the table.
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Hey Paul, you fan of vertical search: it’d be interesting to compare google’s (whether run by you or them) to the results you’d get with medstory.com (disclosure: I’m a friend & ex-employee of the founder)