Comments on: The Sea of Health Information http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/09/30/the-sea-of-health-information/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Daniel Tunkelang http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/09/30/the-sea-of-health-information/comment-page-1/#comment-404 Daniel Tunkelang Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:49:02 +0000 http://thenoisychannel.com/?p=470#comment-404 Definitely. I tend to harp on people thinking that having more information stored / indexed amounts to making it findable. While that's obvious to anyone who works in our area, it doesn't seem obvious to the population at large. It wasn't that long ago that web search engines competed on index size. Perhaps they still do: Cuil launched at "the world's biggest search engine." Definitely. I tend to harp on people thinking that having more information stored / indexed amounts to making it findable. While that’s obvious to anyone who works in our area, it doesn’t seem obvious to the population at large. It wasn’t that long ago that web search engines competed on index size. Perhaps they still do: Cuil launched at “the world’s biggest search engine.”

]]> By: Dave Fauth http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/09/30/the-sea-of-health-information/comment-page-1/#comment-403 Dave Fauth Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:04:36 +0000 http://thenoisychannel.com/?p=470#comment-403 My take away was the need to enable the non-expert to find information / doctor that you can know and trust. <i>“We need to help them sort through it, not discourage the use of information...” </i> My take away was the need to enable the non-expert to find information / doctor that you can know and trust.

“We need to help them sort through it, not discourage the use of information…”

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