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OmniMedicalSearch.com today announced it has released a medical image search engine designed for patients, students, caregivers, and medical professionals.

"Nothing else brings clarity to a subject like images that illustrate the information people research," OmniMedicalSearch.com founder Jason Morrow said. "Users from around the world will find this search tool incredibly useful."

Developed by their long-time support ally, Alloyfish, the image search engine delivers relevant results with an index of 150,000 medical images from 125 different sources that were hand selected. A wide range of images from authoritative medical websites were sought out for the index. "We are going to grow that index and webmasters are invited to submit their medical website for consideration via our Suggest Images link," Morrow added.

This new search tool offered by OmniMedicalSearch joins a small handful of search engines focused on medical images. "Besides stock medical images being marketed, there hasn't been a lot of development in this area," Morrow said. "However, I think the need and demand has always been there and OMS is committed to providing our users valuable search tools they will come back to use again and again."

There are no fees, registration or requirements of any kind to use OmniMedicalSearch.com

OmniMedicalSearch.com was founded in 2004 and centered on the premise of providing authoritative search results from reliable health and medical resources. It has since grown from a medical metasearch engine into a full search engine made possible through partnerships with Healthline.com, Google Custom Search, and their own propietary search technology. OmniMedicalSearch offers six major search options which include: Medical Web, Health News, Forums, MedPro (medical professional level resources), health and medical Shopping Search, and now, a search engine for medical images. OmniMedicalSearch also offers a local directory for clinics and doctors, a reference desk of hard to find resource links, and a growing medical encyclopedia.

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February 06, 2008

Title: OmniMedicalSearch.com Launches Health and Medical Forum Search Engine

http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=818057

TULSA, OK--(Marketwire - February 6, 2008) - OmniMedicalSearch.com today announced it has released a health and medical forum search engine designed to connect patients and caregivers with others who want to share and discuss personal experiences.

"When facing a health crisis, patients and caregivers often look to others for support and encouragement. They want to connect with people under similar circumstances and become part of a community that advances each other's goals, and prevents mistakes," said OmniMedicalSearch founder, Jason Morrow.

"Today's online message boards, chat rooms and forums, those online-communities, are an excellent way for people to connect. OmniMedicalSearch wanted to better serve the online communities by offering a directory and search option which encompasses more than 120 different online forums."

The health and medical forum search engine was developed with aid of Google Custom Search. "This powerful search tool allows users to search more than one forum at a time. Now, they can search over 120 different general and specific health forums at once," Morrow said. Along with the new search tool, OmniMedicalSearch added a forum directory that allows users to find specific forums by topic.

"Whether it's the directory or forum search engine, we want to be part of that bridge between our users and online communities where they can share information and personal stories," Morrow added.

According to a recent study of health-related internet searches, the UK's Economic and Social Research Council showed that people favor websites with personal stories.

"Even if a site makes a favourable first impression, it is unlikely to keep our attention if there are no personal stories that we can relate to. People are looking for advice from like-minded people...," Professor Pamela Briggs wrote. "The great strength of the internet is that you can find people who have had the same problem that you have and see how they have coped with it -- to forget about that, or to act as if it's not happening, is missing the point." (1)

The study warned that searchers should be wary of personal stories that reinforce negative behaviours, and seemingly independent websites that are actually a promotion vehicle of a drug company.

OmniMedicalSearch.com was founded in 2004 and centered on the premise of providing authoritative search results from reliable health and medical resources. It has since grown from a medical metasearch engine into a full search engine made possible through partnerships with Healthline.com, Google Custom Search, and their own search enhancement technology. OmniMedicalSearch offers six major search options which include: Medical Web, Health News, Images, MedPro (medical professional level resources), health and medical Shopping Search, and now, a health and medical Forum Search Engine. OmniMedicalSearch also offers a local directory for clinics and doctors, as well as a reference desk of hard-to-find medical resources.

(1) http://www.esrc.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/PO/releases/2007/march/health.aspx?ComponentId=18643&SourcePageId=17700

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May 23, 2006

Title: Shopping Search Engine for Health and Medical Products Launches

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/5/prweb388746.htm

OmniMedicalSearch launches first ever price comparison shopping search engine for health and medical products that aims to reduce rising health care costs.

Rogers, AR (PRWEB) May 23, 2006 -- OmniMedicalSearch.com announced today that it has released OmniMedicalShop.com, the internet's first shopping search engine for health and medical products with true pricing comparisons.

OmniMedicalShop.com searches over 40,000 products from more than 50 merchants and displays results by price, category, or product. OmniMedicalShop offers three new features designed to help consumers make more informed decisions, including: Add a Review, Ask a Merchant to gain more information about a product directly from the merchant and a Price Alert feature.

"The Price Alert feature allows users to keep track of changing prices for products they want to buy," OmniMedicalShop founder Jason Morrow said. "It's similar to email news alerts, except you keep track of price changes for health products you frequently purchase."

Morrow said OmniMedicalSearch.com built and released OmniMedicalShop.com for one main reason: to combat the rising health care costs in the USA.

"The burdens of health care expenses in this country are being shifted to the consumer," Morrow said. "Forty-four million Americans have no health insurance and health care costs are expected to rise by 7 to 8 percent annually over the next decade, with double digit increases in some sectors."

Factor in a falling dollar, high gasoline prices and that spells out that the USA is entering a high inflationary period not seen since the 1980s, Morrow claims. "I felt we had to do something to help consumers so we put together OmniMedicalShop.com. When you shop around and compare prices of health and medical products, you save money, sometimes up to 50 percent."

When it came to enlisting merchants to enroll in the new health and medical products shopping search engine, Morrow said the company focused on adding merchants from the widest possible spectrum. "The key to our success will be the merchants we work with and the wide range of products they have to offer," Morrow said. "With the exception of Froogle, there isn't another shopping engine that offers access to more health and medical products than OmniMedicalShop."

With more than 40,000 product listings, Morrow thinks OmniMedicalShop is off to a good start, but adding more merchants and products during 2006 will be the company's primary goal.

"When you have more merchants and products, you have more duplicate product listings which allows users to compare more prices and get a better deals," he said. "Helping consumers get the best deal on everything from wheelchairs to nebulizers to humidifiers to daily living aids - you name it, ultimately, that's what OmniMedicalShop is all about," Morrow said. "Americans have little to look forward to in the way of relief when it comes to rising health care costs but when it comes to the products they'll need, they can save money by using OmniMedicalShop. It was built for them."

Unlike most other shopping search engines, OmniMedicalShop is free for merchants. "Other shopping search engines charge on a pay per click basis," Morrow pointed out. "But that ends up excluding most of the online merchants worth having so we kept it free for merchants. Price comparison shopping for health and medical products is a niche - but an important niche and you can't guarantee users the best deals by putting up walls to merchants."

OmniMedicalShop also makes it easy for merchants to enroll and upload their catalog since it accepts the same product feed format that Froogle does.

"We didn't want merchants to have the burden of rebuilding their catalog into a whole new format so we designed OmniMedicalShop to accept the same format that works for Froogle," Morrow said. "If a merchant is listed in Froogle, it can be listed in OmniMedicalShop."

When asked why users would prefer OmniMedicalShop to other shopping search engines, Morrow pointed out that OmniMedicalShop has been integrated with OmniMedicalSearch. "The two search engines complement each other," Morrow claimed.

He explained that OmniMedicalSearch is very exclusive in the websites it searches. "Although we search a smaller index of medical websites, the quality of our results is much higher and more reliable. And with OmniMedicalShop, we are focused only on health and medical products with features Froogle and the other shopping search engines don't have. OmniMedicalShop is in its infancy and will eventually have more health and medical merchants than any other source."

With both of these services working together, Morrow said he has an unbeatable combination that benefits users. "OmniMedicalSearch is the first medical search engine to launch a health and medical products centric shopping search engine. This lead and the combination of the two gives us an edge over other medical search engines and mainstream shopping search engines," Morrow added.

Although price comparison shopping search engines are nothing new, Morrow said it was only a matter of time before one was built for health and medical products and he's glad that OmniMedicalShop.com is one of the first. "The health and medical niche seems to lag 3 or 4 years behind the rest of the web as far as new search products and innovations," he explained. Despite the time lag, Morrow believes it's never too late to help health care consumers save money as OmniMedicalShop promises to do.

About OmniMedicalSearch.com
OmniMedicalSearch (OMS) was launched in July 2004 and is the first true medical metasearch engine. Since its inception, it has worked hard to build its reputation as the most comprehensive search tool available for reliable, authoritative and non-commercial health and medical information. By keeping OMS focused on reputable sources, OMS is able to keep out the 'snake oil salesmen' that proliferate on popular search engines. OMS also developed the first search tool that focuses solely on traditionally non-commercial top-level domains like .gov, .edu, .org and .ac.uk. Other OMS search tools and features include: health and medical news search, image search, MedPro search for medical professionals, Basic search for the general public, dictionary search powered by OneLook, medical acronym search powered by Medilexicon, as well as medical association, journal and database mini-directories. OmniMedicalSearch.com was founded by Jason Morrow and operates with the assistance of SofterLogic, a U.K.-based internet solutions company.

February 28, 2006

Title: OmniMedicalSearch.Com Chooses Healthline as Preferred Provider for Its Medical Metasearch Engine Platform

http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=111371

Healthline's Medically Guided Search(TM) Now Available to OmniMedicalSearch.com Users
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 02/28/2006 -- Healthline (www.healthline.com), the leading internet search engine dedicated to consumer healthcare, announced today that OmniMedicalSearch.com (OMS), a health information metasearch engine, has added Healthline as its preferred provider for its selected search of health and medical websites.

Now when Health information seekers turn to OmniMedicalSearch.com, they will be presented with listings from Healthline.com, the only search engine designed by healthcare professionals to deliver contextually relevant medical search results and content. Healthline's listings in the search results pages will be highlighted as an "OMS Preferred Provider" to indicate their preferred status.

"My first priority is helping people find reliable and authoritative health information. By 'calling out' Healthline's content and search results from third party websites, we're cementing our belief that Healthline is able to fulfill that need better than anyone else," said Jason Morrow, founder of OMS.

Healthline's Medically Guided Search uses a combination of semantic search technology, a comprehensive consumer health taxonomy of over 60,000 interrelated medical concepts -- developed with guidance from 1,100 leading physicians and medical informatics professionals -- and a terminology database of nearly one million words and phrases that matches everyday language to medical equivalents. Healthline crawls the HealthWeb, a filtered set of more than 130 million pages from 170,000 health-related sites selected for their content relevancy; thus Healthline -- and now OmniMedicalSearch -- site visitors benefit from the most precise and more contextually relevant health search results.

OMS aggregates more than 15 top medical websites, including the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and HealthFinder.gov, and serves as a clearinghouse of the most trusted and relevant health and medical information, images and health and medical news on the Internet. OMS also features Web2, the only search tool that queries non-commercial Top Level Domains (TLDs) like .gov, .edu, .org and .ac.uk. By eliminating results from many .com, .net, .biz and other top-level domains designated for commercial use, OMS gives searchers easier access to higher-quality information.

Added Morrow, "Healthline is the best health search engine we have found: it combines deep domain expertise in healthcare with 'conceptual' search made possible through its robust ontology. The results are vastly superior to other approaches like mathematical clustering and categorization engines, which may work well for some verticals, but fall far short in health search."

"Healthline is proud to be associated with OmniMedicalSearch.com, a highly regarded health metasearch platform," said West Shell III, chairman and chief executive officer of Healthline. "We share a commitment to delivering the most comprehensive, trusted solution to a very complex problem -- delivering contextually relevant medical and health-related information to consumers. We anticipate moving forward together -- innovating and committing our assets to change the way people connect to and manage health resources."

About OmniMedicalSearch.com

OmniMedicalSearch (OMS) was launched in July 2004 and is the first true medical metasearch engine. Since its inception, it has worked hard to build its reputation as the most comprehensive search tool available for reliable, authoritative and non-commercial health and medical information. By keeping OMS focused on reputable sources, OMS is able to keep out the 'snake oil salesmen' that proliferate on popular search engines. OMS also developed the first search tool that focuses solely on traditionally non-commercial top-level domains like .gov, .edu, .org and .ac.uk. Other OMS search tools and features include: health and medical news search, image search, MedPro search for medical professionals, Basic search for the general public, dictionary search powered by OneLook, medical acronym search powered by Medilexicon, as well as medical association, journal and database mini-directories. OmniMedicalSearch.com was founded by Jason Morrow and operates with the assistance of SofterLogic, a U.K.-based internet solutions company.

About Healthline

Healthline Networks, Inc. provides the easiest way for consumers to find, understand and manage healthcare information, empowering them to make more informed decisions that lead to better health. Created in collaboration with 1,100 physicians and medical specialists, Healthline's unique Medically Guided Search™ experience is powered by a consumer health taxonomy that encompasses nearly one million medical terms and synonyms -- the largest of its kind, and one that translates everyday language and precisely matches it to complex medical information. Healthline is defining the HealthWeb, a filtered directory currently consisting of more than 170,000 health-oriented websites and 130 million pages of medical content. Combined with the company's visual HealthMaps® and personalization tools, Healthline connects users with the information, people and resources not readily available through general search engines or today's online health destinations. Based in San Francisco, Healthline is backed by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Reed Elsevier Ventures, Mitsui & Co., Ltd., and JHK Investments, LLC.

August 11, 2005

http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/8/prweb270900.htm

Title: New Search Tool for Non-Commercial Websites

Summary: OmniMedicalSearch.com releases first of it's kind search tool for researchers and nerds who want authoritative information without the sales pitch.

OmniMedicalSearch.com this week released it's Web2 metasearch tool which limits results to the traditionally non-commerical top level domains (TLDs) .gov, .edu, .org and .ac.uk.

"The problem with mainstream search engines is that a search on cancer or heart disease can churn up websites with biased opinions driven by a commercial desire to sell you a questionable product or service with poorly supported claims," OMS founder Jason Morrow said. By eliminating results from .com, .net, .biz and other TLDs designated for commercial use, Morrow believes he can keep out the snake oil salesmen and give searchers easier access to higher quality information.

"The internet can be a great source for information and it can also be a very bad place to get information," he said. "This is never more true then with health and medical information where unsound advice can compromise one's health."

What makes the Web2 option unique is that it can search four different non-profit TLDs at once, Morrow pointed out.

"Mainstream search engines only allow you to search one domain at a time via their advanced search tool," he said. "However, if a user wants to search just one TLD, we have a single domain search feature which allows them to do just that."

Although Web2 is featured on a medical metasearch engine, it can deliver authoritative information on just about any given topic. "It's really a great search tool for nerds like me who just want to learn more about a particular subject," Morrow said. "When I am researching something on the internet, my first priority is to find out what the experts have to say."

With all the specialized search engines for blogs, shopping, music and travel that have been released, Morrow admits to being surprised that no one else has put together a metasearch tool like his for non-commercial web pages.

"I think this metasearch engine is going to have mass appeal once people catch on to it," Morrow added. "I wouldn't be surprised if the idea was copied."

Despite his altruistic desire to deliver search results without the sales hyperbole, Morrow does admit two things Web2 users will find. "OMS is supported by third party advertising," he said, "but I've made it undeniably distinguishable. The loud colors and marked as advertising make it hard to miss."

He also cautions that some commercial websites and pages do exist on .org and .ac.uk domains and may pollute search results.

"We will be implementing a url filter in the future which will block out commercial websites from the Web2 option as they discovered. Web2 will be in beta mode until we are 100 percent satisfied that users are getting the best non-commercial results from it."

OmniMedicalSearch.com search options ALSO include:
* 12+ Medical Search Engines (Default Search)
* 10 Health and Medical News Sources
* 5 Image Search Engines
* Bottom Side Toolbar
* MedPro Search for medical professionals.
* Basic Search for the general public.
* Related Search Options.
* Single Site Search Focus.
* One-Click Dictionary look up.

Surfers can also take advantage of many serendipitous information tools offered which include:
* Acronym Search powered by Medilexicon
* Dictionary Search powered by OneLook
* Medical Association Directory
* Medical Journal Mini-Directory
* 70+ Searchable Medical Databases

There are no fees, registration or requirements of any kind to use OmniMedicalSearch.com.

October 4, 2004

http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2004/10/emw164174.htm

Title: Medical Toolbar Released

Summary: Medical search engine releases toolbar, upgrades search performance.

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OmniMedicalSearch.com Monday released a bottom-side toolbar and announced upgrades designed to improve the search performance for the medical metasearch engine.

"The OmniSearchBar is compatible with all other toolbars because it loads at the bottom of your Internet Explorer window," founder Jason Morrow said. "It doesn't contain any kind of spyware, adware or malicious code that could harm one's computer."

When it comes to health and medical information, the integrity of the search results is priority, Morrow added. OmniMedicalSearch delivers quality results from 32 authoritative and reliable databases including medical search engines, image libraries and the latest health and medical news.

Since it was beta released 10 weeks ago, OminMedicalSearch recieved praise from medical professionals, researchers, librarians, patients, universities and even a few competitors.

At that time, OmniMedicalSearch only queried 25 databases. With the addition of seven more also came an exact phrase search function for those engines and databases that support it.

OmniMedicalSearch.com received over 150,000 searches and page views during September. There is no cost, registration or obligation of any kind to use this medical metasearch engine.

OmniMedicalSearch.com search options include:
* 15 Medical Search Engines (Default Search)
* 10 Health and Medical News Sources
* 7 Medical & General Image Libraries
* MedPro Search for medical professionals.
* Basic Search for the general public.
* Related Search Options.
* Single Site Search Focus.
* One-Click Dictionary look up.

Web surfers can also take advantage of many serendipitous information tools offered which include:
* Acronym Search powered by Medilexicon
* Dictionary Search powered by OneLook
* Medical Association Mini-Directory (150+)
* Medical Journal Mini-Directory - (250+)
* Searchable Medical Databases (70+)

Morrow founded OmniMedicalSearch in July to get away from the snake oil salesmen that are prevalent in the search results from mainstream search engines.

"The internet is a good place to find information and it can also be a very bad place to find information," he said.

The medical search engines and databases OmniMedicalSearch.com queries were carefully selected for providing authoritative and non-commerical health and medical information.

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June 15, 2004

http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2004/7/emw141182.htm

Title: David vs. the Goliaths: A specialized metasearch engine makes its debut.

Summary: A new medical metasearch engine vows to keep out the snake oil salesmen while carving out its own niche against the major search engines.

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As Google gears up for it's billion dollar IPO, and MSN beta tests their long awaited search engine, OmniMedicalSearch.com, a medical metasearch engine, is making its debut this week.

Targeted for both the general public and medical professionals, OmniMedicalSearch.com covers 25 databases including authoritative medical search engines, image libraries and the latest health and medical news.

Unlike the search engines Google, Yahoo and others, a metasearch engine sends a search term query to multiple search engines and returns the top results from each search engine. It does not maintain it's own database.

OmniMedicalSearch.com search options include:
* 12 Medical Search Engines (Default Search)
* 8 Health and Medical News Sources
* 5 Medical Image Libraries
* MedPro Search for medical professionals.
* Basic Search for the general public.
* Related Search Options.
* Single Site Search Focus.
* One-Click Dictionary look up.

Surfers can also take advantage of many serendipitous information tools offered which include:
* Acronym Search powered by Medilexicon
* Dictionary Search powered by OneLook
* Medical Association Mini-Directory (150 and counting)
* Medical Journal Mini-Directory - (250 and counting)
* 72 Searchable Medical Databases

OmniMedicalSearch.com features a streamlined design and clean interface to speed downloading time.

"My primary concerns are speed, user satisfaction and presenting relevant results from reliable, unbiased sources," Founder Jason Morrow said. "After that, nothing else matters."

Morrow's search engine faces a tough challenge against the big players like Google, Yahoo and MSN.

"Those are great search engines but their search results churn up a lot of commercial, biased and spam laden websites when one is trying to do serious research," Morrow said. "I don't really view the major search engines as competition. I feel like we are in our own little niche area. The databases OMS queries were carefully selected to provide users with reliable and definitive information from reputable sources."

By keeping his medical metasearch engine focused on "reputable sources," Morrow hopes to keep out the snake oil salesmen and scam artists. "The internet can be a great source for information and it can also be a very bad place to get information," he said. "This is never more true then with health and medical information where unsound advice can compromise one's health."

Morrow also explained that web surfers should not rely on one search tool alone. "I don't think there is one search engine that can do it all and be the best at every type of search," he said. "OmniMedicalSearch.com provides great results for reliable medical information and should be one more search platform added to everyone's Favorite's Folder."

There are no fees, registration or requirements of any kind to use OmniMedicalSearch.com.

SofterLogic, a UK based company, developed the software program for OmniMedicalSearch.com. Morrow is an American citizen doing volunteer work in Romania. Roma Tomato

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