Google Co-op is a service provided by Google which includes two major functions:
Google Topics - 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, they will be incorporated into that user's search results when they search for a related topic.
Google Subscribed Links - allows web site owners to create a feed file on their websites, the feed file would respond to specific search keywords that releate to information on the website and it would incorporate the information into that user's search results.
Google launched the service on May 10, 2006.
On October 24 2006, Google made an entry into social searching by allowing users to customize their own search engine for their website. Users can specify the design and the sites to be searched with the engine.
Google Health
Health is a featured topic in the Google Topics service. 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 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[1], later called MedCIRCLE [2].
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
Notes
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
External links
- Google Co-op
- Google Health
- How to use Google Co-op
- Google Co-op overview
- Google Co-op critic and info
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