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An article today (Jan 16, 2007) talked about how a doctor had turned to Google Scholar to find a treatment for death-cap mushrooms. This clearly demonstrates how the web can help medical professionals find answers to obscure problems.
However, the doctor could have saved hours of research by using focused Health vertical search engines. Kosmix helped give the answer in about 5 seconds, compared to the several hours the doctor spent on Google Scholar.

(Click on the link below to see Kosmix's results for "death cap mushrooms", and then click on "View All Related Topics" to see Silibinin as the first drug displayed)

Death Cap Mushrooms

In the words of David Utter, the author of the article, "Vertical search has been growing in importance, but it hasn't broken through to the mainstream like Google has. Hopefully more medical professionals will learn of and utilize options like Kosmix", specially for diagnosing obscure cases.

The full article can be found here:
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20070116KosmixHealthlineHadDeathCapCure.html

I am happy to report that Kosmix has been chosen as one of the top 100 private companies by AlwaysOn (AO) Media. This top 100 is a really cool list of digital media companies that are chosen for innovation, customer adoption, market potential, media buzz and investor value creation. The AO Media 100 was selected from over a 1,000 companies, peer-nominated by leading venture capitalists, investment bankers and industry analysts. The AO Media 100 consists of private companies at all stages of development.

“We scoured hundreds of applications we received to vote on the top emerging private technology companies,” said Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. “Selected are the companies we think are demonstrating significant market traction or pursuing game-changing technology. We expect these organizations to have a big impact for both New York and Silicon Valley.”

More information and the full press release can be found here

The Kosmix team is growing very rapidly. As part of our recruiting efforts, we are going to career fairs at many schools.

January 2007 schedule:

Jan 17: Stanford University

Jan 25: University of California, Berkeley

Feb 1: University of Texas, Austin

Feb 1: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Join us for exciting full time and internship opportunities in Engineering, Product Management, Business Development and Operations!

Check out current hot job openings at Kosmix Jobs

-Vikram