People Want More From Search; Tell Us What You Want

From TechCrunch:

A new study from the University of Southern California’s Center for the Digital Future has found that a growing number of people no longer believe that search results are reliable and accurate.

The survey found that only 51% of people trust information provided by search engines, down from 62% in 2006. Google, as the most popular search engine in the United States, isn’t trusted by nearly half (49%) of the people who use it, an interesting result.

We're working on the problem as it relates specifically to people being able to find the best health information, services, and resources.  Imagine if you had an expert doing the searching for you. A real person. Someone to research for you, weed out the clutter, and guide you to only the very best.

That's what we're doing now at OrganizedWisdom Health.  Our community of physician-guided health advocates are now taking requests and will create a WisdomCard on any health topic you ask for. A WisdomCard is an organized and vetted set of links on any health topic. Several people are even requesting WisdomCards be created on their doctor, local hospital, and specific health products.

We've been getting tons of requests and our team has been building hundreds of new WisdomCards.

Here's an example of a few WisdomCards recently published:

• Fibromyalgia
• Herpes
• Lung Cancer
• Dr. Alan Greene

If you don't find what you are looking for, just send an email with the health topic and our team will get right on it for you.

Comments

[Simon Owens]

You can probably thank teachers and professors for this trend, since after assigning every research paper they have to announce that The Internet Cannot Be Trusted as a source.

Seriously, this is like the poll that people don't trust the media. When asked in such a broad-based way, it's almost like a push poll. I wouldn't trust the study.

[Unity Stoakes]

Simon,

We generally agree that many studies these days aren't very scientific, however, just from an anecdotal perspective we are hearing many more people say they are having trouble finding the very best resources on sites like Google these days because all of the spam, clutter, marketing sites, SEO sites, etc.

We'd love to hear your thoughts on the state of search today? What sites do you think are best for searching health information. Do you like how we are building WisdomCards at OrganizedWisdom Health and do you have any suggestions that you think could make them more useful to people?

Thanks for commenting.