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Medstory is a healthcare search engine. Its spiders scour the deep Web, focusing on high quality information sources that are inaccessible to Google’s Web crawlers, such as the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed database and subscription-based medical journals. It organizes the information it finds in a relational database and then applies domain models of medicine and related fields to infer deeper connections. For example, it can use models of molecular pathways that are common to several diseases to suggest novel uses of drugs and infer potential side-effects.
Looking ahead, I see vertical search engines becoming a major source of structured information for knowledge services. Agents will be able to submit microformatted query forms containing some blank fields, and receive microformatted responses with the blank fields instantiated. Search engines themselves will increasingly rely on collaboratively tagged and micro-formatted content to improve search results, especially within professional communities like healthcare and pharmaceutical research.
