Archive for the ‘MedlinePlus’ Category

MedlinePlus Needs a New Name

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Google Health OneBox is a boost for NLM's MedlinePlus -- As discussed previously, though, a few tweaks could make it an even bigger boost. A problem not discussed in the previous article is the "MedlinePlus" name -- It has little user recognition, and therefore gets considerably less traffic than it ...

MedlinePlus & Google Health OneBox

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

In August, Google launched Google Health OneBox (left). This puts the National Library of Medicine's Medline Plus right at the top of the search results, and is potentially a valuable new source of traffic for NLM. There are factors, however, that work against MLP -- The three prominent links on the ...