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'''Google Co-op''' is a service provided by [[Google]] which allows experts to create a list of sites about a particular topic and users to subscribe to these lists. When a user subscribes to links and labels provided by a Google Co-op contributor this information is incorporated into that user's web search results when they search for a related topic.

Google launched the service on [[May 10]], [[2006]].

== Google Health ==

'''Health''' is a featured topic in the Google Co-op system. Like all other topics, it is triggered by users entering specific queries, in this case, health queries.

When a user searches for medical information, a number of options become available at the top of the [[SERP|Search Engine Results Page]].

The idea of co-ops for a decentralized labelling/[[quality management]] system is very similar or idential to a labelling system proposed in 1998 by Gunther Eysenbach in the [[British Medical Journal]]<ref> [http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/317/7171/1496 Eysenbach G, Diepgen TL. Towards quality management of medical information on the internet: evaluation, labelling, and filtering of information]. BMJ 1998 Nov 28;317(7171):1496-1500</ref>, later called MedCIRCLE <ref>[http://www.jmir.org/2001/4/e34/ Eysenbach G - An Ontology of Quality Initiatives and a Model for Decentralized, Collaborative Quality Management on the (Semantic) World Wide Web. J Med Internet Res 2001;3(4):e34]</ref>.

Co-op contributors to Google Health include the [[National Library of Medicine]], [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]], [[Health on the Net]], [[Harvard Medical School]], [[Mayo Clinic]] and others. The list also includes Enoch Choi as an individual contributor. Enoch has outlined some of the details on how he contributes sites on his weblog.

According to [[ZDNet]], Google Health is under the leadership of Adam Bosworth, former VP of Engineering at [[BEA Systems]].

==References==

#[http://www.newmediamedicine.com/blog/2006/07/04/google-health/ NMM blog post about Google Health (with permission)]

==Notes==

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[[Category:Google services|Health]]

== External links ==

* [http://google.com/coop/ Google Co-op]

*[http://www.google.com/coop/topic?cx=health_devel Google Health]

* [http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-05-11-n40.html How to use Google Co-op]

* [http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/google-coop-overview.shtml Google Co-op overview]