Indepth Health, Auto and Travel Searches With Kosmix
I’m always interested in ways to find health information and different search engines do try to bring relevant results together, namely Google. But nothing comes as close as Kosmix does through their Right Heath search. Kosmix also contains topic pages for automobiles and travel through their Right Autos and Right Trips sites containing extensive information.
On Kosmix I typed in a condition, fibromyalgia and a whole page full a information appeared. Each topic page whether it be for a condition, a drug or symptom contains
- a top box that contains an overall guide with relevant information.
- web results.
- questions and answers.
- videos.
- trusted sources (government and associations).
- advanced reading.
- latest news.
- featured articles.
- a right sidebar that lets you explore the condition and refine your search.
Right Health also has a community feature but it is not broken down into specific diseases and drugs, just lumped together at this point. Perhaps if they get more people to join the community they can break down the general topics.
Right Autos and Right Trips work along the same lines, providing a plethora of information, guides, reviews and videos. A search on Toyota Camry brought up a car guide, reviews and even a tab on car enthusiasts.
Kosmix crawls the web to “to create algo-generated home pages.” This is different from another popular topic specific search engine Mahalo whose topic pages are people created and cover a much broader range of topics. I found more information about fibromyalgia on Kosmix than I did on Mahalo. That’s where people-generated content can fall short or excel depending on the page editor whereas with Kosmix it uses a categorization engine to constantly crawl the web for new information.
Check out Kosmix, try a few searches and let me know what you think. Are there other sites like this out there that you use that aggregates information from the web all in one place?
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Comments
This is a very helful site to get aggregated information. They also have other verticals such as travel and autos.
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Travel tips
If you need information about twenty different topics in order to find what you want about a City. Then you have a simple tool in your hand here.
The lazy man use it because he only need to write one single keyword,and the busy women have no time to search for twenty keywords.
Definitely a good site, my wife recently had an Appendicitis event, I was able to find very good information on the Kosmix website. http://www.kosmix.com/Health/appendicitis-s