Finally, a healthcare search engine that works

January 23, 2006 | Matt Marshall

San Francisco healthcare search engine startup Healthline has just raised $14 million in another round of venture capital. It was going to announce the funding tomorrow, but Michael Arrington at TechCrunch scoops it.

No surprise, as we mentioned back in October this was likely to happen.

And as Mike mentions, the site is getting some buzz in tomorrow’s New York Times, which says Healthline is performing favorably alongside sites such as Google and WebMD:

Type “cold” into Google, for instance, and the site displays links to information on everything from nasal maladies to Cold, the rock band. Do the same thing on WebMD, and the site will post many links, but only to its own content….

…Type “cold” into Healthline’s search box, by contrast, and the site presents you with a map of different respiratory diseases and disorders, along with a list of links to Web sites with information – but not commercial products – related to those disorders.

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About the Author, Matt Marshall

Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.