Are Google or Yahoo a good portal for getting quality healthcare web information?
We examined the ranks of 50 award-won health websites in Taiwan against the search results of two popular portals with 6 common diseases. The results showed that the portal search results do not rank the quality web sites reasonably.
Chang
Polun
P
Institute of Health Informatics and Decision Making, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan/R.O.C.
Hou
I-Ching
IC
Hsu
Chiao-Ling
CL
Lai
Hsiang-Fen
HF
D006266:Health Education; D007255:Information Services / Q000592:standards; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D013624:Taiwan