SPAM sites are becoming a major problem in the health sector and something needs to be done to weed out the garbage that's out there.
You would think that you could trust major health portals like Revolution Health and vertical search engines like Kosmix that focus on health as one of their main areas of expertise to protect people from SPAM. But sadly they're not doing a good enough job and spammers are taking over their search results and tarnishing their credibility.
Here are two examples of searches I just did on Revolution Health which features Kosmix searches after their own search results. To illustrate the issue rather blatantly I did one search on the drug Viagra. And a second search on the topic of Hair Loss. You'll see how the results are filled with SPAM sites:
No matter what health topic you are searching on, any credible health site should make it their mission to only deliver high quality results. It's bad enough these black hat spammers even exist. It's even worse when health sites with so much promise like Revolution Health let them infest their site.