A Search Engine for Finding Medical Information and Tutorials

There are over 2000 medical tutorials in the Spider Nevi search engine, with a further 7000 tutorials waiting to be reviewed. Unfortunately the search engine isn't work-safe, since recent searches are put on the front page and some people are searching for obscenities, but if you can get past that you might like Spider Nevi ( http://www.spidernevi.com/ )

The results, I found here, were not always so much as tutorials as encyclopedia entries, but they were informative. I tried "psoriasis" found three results, all from a family medical practice site. A search for "flu" found 17 results, but unfortunately partial word matches sound words like "fluid."

I like the idea, but I'd like to see a lot more content here, with some distinction between what's an encyclopedia entry and what's an actual interactive tutorial. It'd be nice if there were a switch between regular search and automatic stemming search as well. Still in progress.

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