title: General vs health specialized search engine: a blind comparative evaluation of top search results.
abstract: This paper presents the results of a blind comparison of top ten search results retrieved by Google.ch (French) and Khresmoi for everyone, a health specialized search engine. Participants--students of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva had to complete three tasks and select their preferred results. The majority of the participants have largely preferred Google results while Khresmoi results showed potential to compete in specific topics. The coverage of the results seems to be one of the reasons. The second being that participants do not know how to select quality and transparent health web pages. More awareness, tools and education about the matter is required for the students of Medicine to be able to efficiently distinguish trustworthy online health information.
authors.affiliation: Health on the net Foundation, Chene-Bourg, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Natalia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Pletneva
authors.affiliation: Health on the net Foundation, Chene-Bourg, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Rafael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ruiz de Castaneda
authors.affiliation: Health on the net Foundation, Chene-Bourg, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Frederic
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Baroz
authors.affiliation: Health on the net Foundation, Chene-Bourg, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Celia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Boyer
mesh_terms: D054626:Consumer Health Information / Q000145:classification* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D057225:Data Mining / Q000145:classification* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D057386:Search Engine / Q000145:classification* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016037:Single-Blind Method; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*