MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Kosmix (www.kosmix.com) announced today a partnership to provide its industry-leading Kosmix Health Search technology to members of HealthBoards.com, a leading health community website linking individuals with similar health conditions. Based on sophisticated, patent-pending algorithms, Kosmix presents a multi-dimensional view of search results that enables consumers to search less, while finding the most useful information on the Web more easily. Kosmix officially launched its Health Search technology this week at the DEMO 2006 Conference in Phoenix.
Kosmix Health Search categorizes Web pages, producing search results that show users a multi-dimensional view of relevant web content. This approach reduces the number of clicks it takes users to find what really matters to them, and presents useful information they may not have considered otherwise.
HealthBoards seeks to make a difference in the lives of people with similar medical conditions, enabling them to share information and their experiences on message boards that create a unique support group community. HealthBoards has 230,000 registered members and more than 2 million messages posted on over 140 diseases, conditions, and other health topics.
"The traditional search technologies we've used simply do not match the depth and richness of information that is found using Kosmix," said Charles Simmons, CEO of iCentric Corporation, which publishes HealthBoards.com. "This is so important to our members because it ensures that they will all have access to the best, most relevant information possible, which significantly strengthens their support of each other."
"Finding health-related information is always important, but helping people do so in a way that can make a difference to a supportive community is very gratifying," said Anand Rajaraman, co-founder of Kosmix. "The combination of Kosmix Health Search and HealthBoards.com illustrates the flexibility of our technology platform and its ability to provide health specific web search to support health communities."
About Kosmix (www.kosmix.com)
Kosmix has created a fundamentally new approach to search based on the development of patent-pending algorithms and technology that present a multi- dimensional view of relevant search results. The company was founded in 2004 by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman, who also co-founded Junglee, a provider of database technology for helping consumers find products on the Internet, which was acquired by Amazon in 1998. Kosmix has filed more than 10 patents and has indexed more than 3.2 billion URLs and counting. Based in Mountain View, Calif., Kosmix is privately funded. Lead investors include Cambrian Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
About HealthBoards (www.healthboards.com)
HealthBoards.com provides a unique "one-stop" support group community offering message boards on over 140 diseases, conditions, and health topics. The HealthBoards community is one of the largest and most dynamic on the Web, with over 200,000 registered members, and well over 2 million messages posted. In addition to community, HealthBoards offers a comprehensive Health Guide to its members, which provides information on virtually every major health topic. HealthBoards was rated as one of the top 20 health information websites in 2005 by Consumer Reports Health WebWatch.
KosmixCONTACT: media, +1-650-641-7319, or pr@kosmix.com, for Kosmix; or CharlesSimmons of HealthBoards, +1-310-348-8120, or simmons@healthboards.com
