ASK announced today the addition of health related answers to their “Smart Answers” engine. The answers which made available through a cooperation with healthline.com, a health search engine, cover a wide range of medicine each with links to related topics such as Composition, Dosage, Forms, Interactions, Precautions and Side Effects.
Here’s the results for a simple search for Naproxen on ASK:

From the official press release:
Ask.com and other major consumer-facing businesses are leveraging Healthline’s content to quickly obtain accurate and relevant medical definitions, images, and links to doctor-reviewed content to enhance the consumer experience and improve the brand ensuring the consumer experience.
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Google rolled out a new algorithm update and one company which has seen major loss since then is Answers.com. According to a press release issued this morning by Answers.com, their website saw 28% loss in traffic in the past week.
Answers Corporation (ANSW) announced today that, due to a search engine algorithmic adjustment by Google, Answers.com has seen a drop in search engine traffic starting last week. As a result, overall traffic is currently down approximately 28% from levels immediately prior to the change.
It’s been mentioned that the company’s acquisition of Dictionary.com may fall through due to failure to raise …read more