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What is the good search engine 


Objective

  1. What is search engine ?

  2. Example.

  3. What search engine should I use? 

What is search engine ?

It is tool that allow users to search the internet for content using keywords. And the result returned, ranking the found pages in order of their relevance to give them the best answer to their query. This means giving priority to the highest quality and most relevant pages.

Example:

  • Google 

  • Yahoo 

What is medical search engine ?

A medical journal search engine is a centralized online platform that allows you to find reliable literature on any medical topic within seconds. 

Most Common Example:

  1. PubMed

  2. Google Scholar

  3. Cochrane Library 

1- PubMed

  • Most common medical search engine. 

  • Free.

  • It contains over 25 million records and searches several databases – including interfacing with MEDLINE and other publications by the NLM, such as MedlinePlus.

  • Have a lot of filter to narrow the result.

  • You can easily refine your search per topic in PubMed by typing search terms to the MeSH.

2- Google scholar

  • Google Scholar is a free medical journal search engine indexing journal articles from a variety of databases. 

  • Free 

  • Similar to Google 

  • You can filter the results to suit your search.

3- Cochrane Library

  • Best database for systematic reviews or meta-analyses. 

  • In addition to results obtained from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), Cochrane library search results can also include control trials in MEDLINE and EMBASE, Cochrane protocols and editorials.

What search engine should I use?