• By Nicholas Carlson
    Jan 25, 2008 4:20 PM 550
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    HealthCentral takes cash from Barry Diller, Michael Moritz

    HealthCentral just announced $50 million in funding. The round included a major investment from IAC and smaller contributions from prior investors Sequoia Capital, Carlyle Group and Polaris Venture Partners. HealthCentral operates several health-related websites, including the long-troubled DrKoop.com, which was once a publicly traded company a bubble or two ago. Here's how their traffic looked last year, according to Compete. It's nice and all, but stick around for the one comparing HealthCentral to WebMD. If I used the word pwnage, I would. But I don't.

    Here's HealthCentral.com and its other sites.
    And now, versus WebMD.
    Looks pretty bad for HealthCentral, but it's early yet. The site only changed its name to HealthCentral in 2006.


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