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SearchMedica.com Expands Content and Functionality

• Posted May 16th 2008
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• by Marji

SearchMedica, a search engine for medical professionals, announced this week that it has added electronic Medicines Compendium (eMC) to the GP section of Searchmedica.co.uk. Now, users can access drug information from a variety of sources in just one search.

This announcement by SearchMedica, a unit of CMPMedica, UK, comes just two months after an alliance was formed between SearchMedica.com and Advanstar’s ModernMedicine.com. This particular partnership called for SearchMedica to power ModernMedicine’s web searches to yield users more robust results.

SearchMedica ranks search results based on relevance but also sorts results to make them more actionable for users. It organizes results into categories such as practical articles and news, research reviews and editorials, evidence-based articles and meta-analyses, practice guidelines, clinical trials for patients, continuing medical education, and alternative and or complementary medicine.

Both announcements illustrate CMPMedica’s commitment to expanding the content and reach of SearchMedica. They will help SearchMedica achieve goals of providing relevant information to medical professionals and making it easier for them to locate that data in the process. It doesn’t matter if you have the best content in the world if users can’t access it. These two alliances are combining to enable SearchMedica to provide both extensive content and search capabilities to its users–two vital components of the online information industry. It will be interesting to see if CMPMedica forms additional alliances in the short term to further bolster its offerings to the marketplace.