Do you use Wikipedia as a source of medical information? Read this…

from Laika’s MedLib blog at http://laikaspoetnik.wordpress.com/

Do you ever use Wikipedia? I do and so do many other people. It is for free, easy to use, and covers many subjects.
But do you ever use Wikipedia to look up scientific or medical information? Probably everyone does so once in a while. Dave Munger (Researchblogging) concluded a discussion [...]

Have you tried Google’s “Wonder Wheel”? or Google Squared?

Google is workhng to enable searchers and web browsers to dig deeper into the Web and view ”a graphical way to explore topics by clicking on related searches that go deeper into the subject of the main query.”  Google Squared, a tool designed to chart research into columns and rows for those who are trying [...]

Using Google for Search and Research

Watch and learn from this lecture by the director of user happiness at Google!
See it at:  http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.asp?showID=15608

Cuil – a new search engine to consider using…

A brand new search engine is available and one I was curious about, so I took a quick look and found it fascinating…give it a try!
From their About Page:
The Internet is getting bigger and more disorganized every day. Cuil’s goal is to solve the two great problems of search: how to index the whole Internet—not [...]