Thank you for the great feedback. In fact, I just used our RecommendWisdom feature to add the great link you suggested to the ALS WisdomCard. What will happen is one of our Guides will now review the recommended resource and consider moving it to the main part of the WisdomCard after the content is reviewed. This is one way that the community of users can help improve the WisdomCards in a controlled way so that all future users of the WisdomCard will benefit from your contribution.

You raise a great point about adding more credibility details about each of our Guides. We have just launched in alpha a new social profile for our guides so that can share more background about their experience level, background, education, etc. This has been rolled out for only a few of our Guides but we are in the process of doing it for all of our Guides to provide greater transparency, authority, credibility, and hopefully build more trust with our users which is paramount. So this is being worked on right now…

We’ve got a lot of work to do, but feedback and suggestions like this are invaluable as we work to make this the best service for getting health information on the Web.

Thanks again for testing the service.

When I tried to determine who compiled the entry, all I found was:

This WisdomCard Has Been Hand-Crafted by Tonya J

Not exactly helpful to the user trying to determine the authoritativeness of the info provided.

Nice looking pages, though—it is just that the results aren’t as useful as those on the same topic on MedlinePlus:

http://vsearch.nlm.nih.gov/vivisimo/cgi-bin/query-meta?input-form=simple&v%3Asources=medlineplus-bundle&v%3Aproject=medlineplus&query=amyotrophic+lateral+sclerosis

• Wikipedia: ALS

If this is supposed to be a health-specific search engine, it needs to do better than that. That’s basically just a Google or Yahoo-level result. I will stick with the much more authoritative MedlinePlus:

http://medlineplus.gov/