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October 14, 2008
Health Web Site Wars Continue: HealthGrades Acquires Wrong Diagnosis
WebMD is apparently the target of yet another merger by 2 major health web sites. Last week, Revolution Health and Everyday Health merged.
This week, HealthGrades.com has announced its acquisition of WrongDiagnosis.com.
Here's a Compete.com snapshot at how the 5 sites stack up against each other.
It looks like Revolution and Everyday are in better position to take on WebMD. HealthGrades has a ton of content behind a premium content wall.
But all of them, including WebMD, have a long way to go in catching Yahoo's Health site:
UPDATE: As a commenter pointed out, Compete can only measure the Yahoo.com traffic. So, I looked up the most recent comScore ratings for the health niche. Here they are, showing WebMD as the clear leader:
Posted by Nathania Johnson on October 14, 2008 11:31 AM
Comments
I think you miscalculated yahoo's health traffic in the second graph.
What you've calculated is yahoo's overall traffic.
The portal's health traffic is less than webmd's and cannot be estimated using alexa or those sorts of tools.
HealthyMe October 14, 2008 3:53 PM
