Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark have designed a search engine that indexes specific sets of databases to help identify rare diseases. FindZebra.com allows users to query patient symptoms. The technology crawls over 31,000 medical articles focused on rare and genetic diseases to deliver medically relevant search results.
This interesting news was on Search Engine Land in their article, “Search Engine Designed By Denmark Researchers Helps Medics Diagnose Rare Diseases.” The developers boast that it delivers significantly better results than Google when searching for rare disease content.
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