On 10/04/2013 11:39 PM, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
"Search engines increasingly lead people to Wikipedia, which is one of the factors in making Wikipedia the single highest traffic source of health information in the world."
I can search for images, but only when they have words associated with them, e.g. descriptions, tags or categories.
In this sense, doctors examining a patient and giving them a diagnosis is similar to tagging an image. Suddenly, the illness that this patient felt becomes possible to search.