Social Media in Clinical Practice: Chapter 2, Medical Search Engines and Google
When I realized Springer made the individual chapters of my book, Social Media in Clinical Practice, available, I thought it would be useful for future readers to get some insights about each chapter one by one.
Here is the short summary of what you can read about, and an excerpt of the second chapter, Using Medical Search Engines with a Special Focus on Google:
There are billions of pages on the World Wide Web and search engines help us find the information we are looking for. Having so many pages with a huge amount of information online is the biggest advantage and disadvantage of the Internet at the same time. Instead of manually browsing the websites, search engines point us to the pages that contain the key words we are looking for.
Topics covered:
How Do Search Engines Work?
The Short History of Search Engines
The Basics of Searching Online
Search operators in Google.com
What Is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?
How to Get Better at Searching Online?
Search Engines in Medicine and Research
Pubmed.com
Third-Party Pubmed Tools
Google Scholar
WolframAlpha
Additional search operators that could be used in Google
Scholar as well
Examples of medical search queries on WolframAlpha
Source: ScienceRoll - Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Dr. Bertalan Meskó Tags: Medical Search Medicine Medicine 2.0 Social Media in Clinical Practice Web 2.0 Source Type: blogs