FindZebra uses the open source information retrieval tool Indri to search its index.
Notes on verification
Confirmed true for 2013 per original peer-reviewed paper and multiple contemporaneous sources, but FindZebra later migrated to Apache Solr/Lucene, so the claim is outdated for the tool's current architecture.
Sources
- This New Search Engine Helps Doctors Diagnose Rare, Obscure Diseases (smithsonianmag.com)
- https://www.technologyreview.com/2013/03/18/179360/the-rare-disease-search-engine-that-outperforms-google/ (technologyreview.com)
- https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/258270 (medicalnewstoday.com)
- https://www.findzebra.com/ (findzebra.com)
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1386505613000166 (sciencedirect.com)
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3932942/ (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1750-1172-9-S1-O5 (link.springer.com)
- https://journals.plos.org/digitalhealth/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pdig.0000269 (journals.plos.org)