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Hakia says they’re tapping the expertise of librarians. As CEO Dr. Riza C Berkan writes on the Hakia blog:
Every Web search starts with two queries. One is X. The other one is “who knows X the best?” Because finding X is not enough if the author of that page does not know X himself/herself. […]

The Krafty Librarian has assembled a number of useful resources on OvidSP that should be helpful to those still working on transition plans.
You can also check out what other medical libraries are doing by searching the Medical Library CSE for ovidsp.
You could even seek out specific instructional materials by searching for Ovidsp (handout OR […]

(Please note that this post contains no links to PogoFrog’s domain. If you really want to find it, you can Google for it and find it very quickly, but I don’t want to give it any Google juice by linking to it.)
PogoFrog is a Google Custom Search Engine, like the Medical Library Search Engine […]

In reference to the medical library search engine, Martha Hardy wrote:
Hi David-
Thanks for putting together this useful custom search engine. Is it available as a Google gadget? It would be handy to add this to an iGoogle page.
Martha
Here y’go, Martha. Just click on this Add to Google thingee:

Want to add it to […]

A few days ago I made a Google Custom Search Engine for searching the Web sites of medical libraries.
Connie Schardt pointed out that it could be useful for finding handouts, tutorials and other teaching materials. Here are some ideas on how this might be done.

Say you’re looking for PowerPoint presentations about Evidence based medicine. […]

When I saw this list of Medical Library Sites, I couldn’t resist making a custom search engine that would search them all. You can give it a try here.
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Other posts about Custom Search Engines
Consumer Health and Patient Education Information Search Engine
History of Medicine Search Engine

These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can […]

(Just for the record: My original title for this post was “I’m in Ur Feteratid Serch, Getin’ You Sum Consumr Helth Info,” but I figured that this would only amuse a handful of people and annoy everyone else. If the joke doesn’t make sense to you, check out ICanHasCheezburger.)
Back in August I was contacted […]

Laurie Blanchard, B.A., MLS, a librarian at the University of Manitoba’s J.W. Crane Memorial Library, writes Info Long-Term Care, a “Current Awareness Service for health care practitioners in long-term and geriatric care.”

While you’re checking out her blog, take Laurie’s Google CSE for a test drive and Search geriatrics, gerontology and long-term care websites.

Why is David […]

Neat! Google Operating System shows us that one can use this tool to search for Google Custom Search Engines (”CSEs”). Just by poking around for a few minutes, I found a bunch of CSEs of potential interest to medical libraryfolk. Here’s a small selection:

Paediatrics Search Engine
Paediatrics Search Engine searches 35 sites, including: http://www.emedicine.com/, […]

The Information Resources Section of the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield has put together a Google Custom Search Engine of interest to medical libraryfolk. According to Andrew Booth, Director of Information Resources & Reader in Evidence Based Information Practice, the Netting the Evidence Google Search Engine “…searches […]

I’ve previously mentioned my Google Custom Search Engines for Consumer Health (or Patient Education) Information and for the History of Medicine, but a couple of comments left by readers have pointed me towards more interesting CSEs:
Jere Odell points out the five interesting custom search engines at the Central Indiana Bioethics Portal, including search engines for […]

It occurred to me out of nowhere in particular that a search engine for free Web resources on the History of Medicine might be awfully useful to some, so I scraped about 500 URLs from the History of the Health Sciences Section of the Medical Library Association and slapped together this History of Medicine Custom […]

Something useful to libraries from Google Librarian Central!
If you have a page of links on your site for a particular subject, adding this little snippet of code will put a custom search engine on the page that searches all the content on the other ends of these links. When you add new links to […]

It seems as if everything I’ve tried to write in the last couple of weeks is an exercise in contrariness. I apologize in advance.
Eugene Barsky and Allan Cho have an article in the current issue of the Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, Introducing Web 2.0: social search for health librarians.
It’s great that […]

I recently posted about Goldminer and Yottalook. Since then, there has been a thread on a listserv I subscribe to (unrelated) in which list members suggested online radiology resources. Included in these suggestions were the following.

RadiologyEducation.com
SearchingRadiology.com

Both RadiologyEducation.com and SearchingRadiology.com were created by Michael P. D’Alessandro, M.D.
RadiologyEducation.com calls itself a “digital library […]

Yottalook is a free radiology-centric search engine based on Google’s indexing technology with proprietary relevance algorithm by iVirtuoso. Currently, Yottalook Images and Yottalook References search engines are available for use. Yottalook Image has specially been designed to search radiology images from various peer-reviewed online sources and currently has access to over 100,000 images. Yottalook References […]

I learned via David’s Random Stuff that the Consumer Health and Patient Education CSE I made was mentioned by Tim Daniels, Learning Commons Coordinator at Georgia State University when he gave a presentation last Friday at a meeting of the Atlanta Health Science Library Consortium called “Exploring Blogs, Wikis, and other social software applications.”
Neat! […]

Over at the European Medical Librarians blog, Oliver Obst has posted a link to a recent issue of the Journal of EAHIL (European Association for Health Information and Libraries) in which he has published his new column, titled “Web 2.0″ (see page 50 of this PDF).
Oliver starts with an overview of MedLib blogs,including charts of […]

Update, 12/2/2006: Further information on the CSE and the Second Life Library Search HUD at InfoIsland.
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Guus van den Brekel (a.k.a. Namro Orman) made my day today.
He’s going to try to make the CSE that I made available from the Second Life Librares in the Library Search HUD (HeadsUp Display).
Neat!
Guus, don’t worry about the delayed guest […]

If you’re interested in Google CSEs, you’ll want to check out this post from Google Blogoscoped by John Biundo and Eric Enge of Stone Temple Consulting. Enge is the creator of the Custom Search Guide.
Note that this is for the more advanced features of Google CSEs. The authors state clearly:

This article is not […]