Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Thing 19

I enjoyed this thing.  My topic of research was shoulder replacement since a doctor recommended it for me.  Not soon, but in the next few years.  First I checked out Yahoo since I go there when I'm using my AOL account.  Found some very interesting information.  When I checked with Google at first I couldn't find anything at all.  I was beginning to think my doctor had just said I'd need surgery just to get me out of his office.  However, I felt better when I checked Yahoo.  Then I went to Phil Bradley's site and checked out a couple of medical search engines - Healio and OmniMedicalSearch.com.  Those sites gave me much more information than I perhaps really needed.  But at least I didn't have to worry about getting a lot of non-medical sites thrown in with the rest if a "word" matched.  For the meta search engine I used metacrawler.  I saw many of the same sites as I saw on Yahoo.  I don't know that I would necessarily need to use a meta search engine.  For my usual needs, Yahoo would do just fine.  And so ends Thing 19 - finally.  Hopefully we'll get to Thing 20 this evening.  See you later.

1 comment:

  1. I agree you are better off using the special search engines in a case like this. Surprised you couldn't find anything on Google!

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