GOOGLE VIEWS: Google Health

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. Download the new Search Engine Land app, plus the Marketing Land sister app for iOS and Android devices now. These SEO errors can be easily Google announced last week that they’ve developed a clinical grade health tracking wristband for use in medical research and clinical trials. In other words, the google health wristband won’t show up on Amazon or in Walgreens. And that’s one of the However, one major company that is notably absent from the health care IT gold rush is search giant Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL ) , which isn't shy about disrupting other industries. The failure of google health In 2008, Google introduced a personal health Three years after launching google health, the company has decided to pull the plug on the ailing personal health records service. The lights are also going out for the Google PowerMeter service, which monitors Web-based home energy use. The Google Health Google is retiring two sites--Google Health and Google PowerMeter--due to low interest, the company announced. "We want to satisfy the most pressing needs for the greatest number of people," Google wrote in a blog post. "In the case of these two products At the stroke of midnight on New Year's day, Google Health, the personal health record data aggregation service for consumers, will shut down for good. Google first made the announcement quietly, in a blog post last June. But the closure of Google Health .

Personal health records, or PHRs, were all the buzz at last week's health-tech conference in San Diego -- especially recent entries by Google and Microsoft that have the rest of the industry energized, focused and at least a little bit frightened. For 18 months, Google has been working to come up with a product offering and a strategy in the promising field of consumer health information. Until now, the search giant hasn’t had anything to show for its labors other than bumps along the way Some sad news: Google Health is shutting down on January 1, 2012. The service, which still received a thorough interface update last September, has failed to catch up to the high expectations that Google had for it. Google Health was under development Addition to Knowledge Graph will present medical facts for searches on health conditions, verified by the Mayo Clinic Google is changing the way it displays search queries to pull medical facts directly into its results. The medical information is being .