Vertical Search Engines in a Healthy Space

Specialized search engines claim that they can deliver a better, more relevant performance. Some say that they carefully weed out their results to avoid anything smelling of spam or scams. How well do they deliver on these promises? To find out, I decided to run the same three searches on Kosmix, Healthline, and Healia that I ran on the major search engines: "breast cancer," "BRCA testing," and "ACL." Keep reading to see what I found.