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Press
Releases:
October
4, 2004
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2004/10/emw164174.htm
Title:
Medical Toolbar Released
Summary:
Medical search engine releases toolbar, upgrades search
performance.
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OmniMedicalSearch.com
Monday released a bottom-side toolbar and announced
upgrades designed to improve the search performance for
the medical metasearch engine.
"The OmniSearchBar is compatible with all other
toolbars because it loads at the bottom of your Internet
Explorer window," founder Jason Morrow said.
"It doesn't contain any kind of spyware, adware or
malicious code that could harm one's computer."
When it comes to health and medical information, the
integrity of the search results is priority, Morrow
added. OmniMedicalSearch delivers quality results from 32
authoritative and reliable databases including medical
search engines, image libraries and the latest health and
medical news.
Since it was beta released 10 weeks ago,
OminMedicalSearch recieved praise from medical
professionals, researchers, librarians, patients,
universities and even a few competitors.
At that time, OmniMedicalSearch only queried 25
databases. With the addition of seven more also came an
exact phrase search function for those engines and
databases that support it.
OmniMedicalSearch.com received over 150,000 searches and
page views during September. There is no cost,
registration or obligation of any kind to use this
medical metasearch engine.
OmniMedicalSearch.com search options include:
* 15 Medical Search Engines (Default Search)
* 10 Health and Medical News Sources
* 7 Medical & General Image Libraries
* MedPro Search for medical professionals.
* Basic Search for the general public.
* Related Search Options.
* Single Site Search Focus.
* One-Click Dictionary look up.
Web surfers can also take advantage of many serendipitous
information tools offered which include:
* Acronym Search powered by Medilexicon
* Dictionary Search powered by OneLook
* Medical Association Mini-Directory (150+)
* Medical Journal Mini-Directory - (250+)
* Searchable Medical Databases (70+)
Morrow founded OmniMedicalSearch in July to get away from
the snake oil salesmen that are prevalent in the search
results from mainstream search engines.
"The internet is a good place to find information
and it can also be a very bad place to find
information," he said.
The medical search engines and databases
OmniMedicalSearch.com queries were carefully selected for
providing authoritative and non-commerical health and
medical information.
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June
15, 2004
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2004/7/emw141182.htm
Title:
David vs. the Goliaths: A specialized metasearch engine
makes its debut.
Summary: A new medical metasearch engine vows to
keep out the snake oil salesmen while carving out its own
niche against the major search engines.
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As Google gears up for
it's billion dollar IPO, and MSN beta tests their long
awaited search engine, OmniMedicalSearch.com, a medical
metasearch engine, is making its debut this week.
Targeted for both the general public and medical
professionals, OmniMedicalSearch.com covers 25 databases
including authoritative medical search engines, image
libraries and the latest health and medical news.
Unlike the search engines Google, Yahoo and others, a
metasearch engine sends a search term query to multiple
search engines and returns the top results from each
search engine. It does not maintain it's own database.
OmniMedicalSearch.com search options include:
* 12 Medical Search Engines (Default Search)
* 8 Health and Medical News Sources
* 5 Medical Image Libraries
* MedPro Search for medical professionals.
* Basic Search for the general public.
* Related Search Options.
* Single Site Search Focus.
* One-Click Dictionary look up.
Surfers can also take advantage of many serendipitous
information tools offered which include:
* Acronym Search powered by Medilexicon
* Dictionary Search powered by OneLook
* Medical Association Mini-Directory (150 and counting)
* Medical Journal Mini-Directory - (250 and counting)
* 72 Searchable Medical Databases
OmniMedicalSearch.com features a streamlined design and
clean interface to speed downloading time.
"My primary concerns are speed, user satisfaction
and presenting relevant results from reliable, unbiased
sources," Founder Jason Morrow said. "After
that, nothing else matters."
Morrow's search engine faces a tough challenge against
the big players like Google, Yahoo and MSN.
"Those are great search engines but their search
results churn up a lot of commercial, biased and spam
laden websites when one is trying to do serious
research," Morrow said. "I don't really view
the major search engines as competition. I feel like we
are in our own little niche area. The databases OMS
queries were carefully selected to provide users with
reliable and definitive information from reputable
sources."
By keeping his medical metasearch engine focused on
"reputable sources," Morrow hopes to keep out
the snake oil salesmen and scam artists. "The
internet can be a great source for information and it can
also be a very bad place to get information," he
said. "This is never more true then with health and
medical information where unsound advice can compromise
one's health."
Morrow also explained that web surfers should not rely on
one search tool alone. "I don't think there is one
search engine that can do it all and be the best at every
type of search," he said.
"OmniMedicalSearch.com provides great results for
reliable medical information and should be one more
search platform added to everyone's Favorite's
Folder."
There are no fees, registration or requirements of any
kind to use OmniMedicalSearch.com.
SofterLogic, a UK based company, developed the software
program for OmniMedicalSearch.com. Morrow is an American
citizen doing volunteer work in Romania.
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