• DocumentCode
    1818413
  • Title

    A Reflection of Current Search Engine Techniques on Medical Search Environments

  • Author

    Inthiran, Anushia ; Alhashmi, Saadat M. ; Ahmed, Pervaiz K.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Inf. Technol., Monash Univ., Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    19-21 July 2010
  • Firstpage
    170
  • Lastpage
    173
  • Abstract
    In this day and age medical search engines have become a necessity. External influences and user trends contribute to the popularity of medical search engines. Unlike their predecessors (horizontal search engines) extensive search strategies have yet to be implemented on vertical search engines like medical search engines. The composition and structure of medical search engines draw many users to utilize them regularly. This makes a medical search engine an ideal domain to implement and asses the feasibility of existing search engine strategies. By doing so, users will be provided with relevant search results. In this research study, we review current search strategies and analyze the applicability of these techniques on medical search environments. We also suggest a direction for the future of search engine strategies on medical search engines.
  • Keywords
    search engines; medical search; predecessor; search engine technique; search strategy; vertical search engine; Collaboration; Educational institutions; Engines; Navigation; Search engines; Web search; collaboration; exploratory research; medical search engines; personalization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Intelligent Environments (IE), 2010 Sixth International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Kuala Lumpur
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7836-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-0-7695-4149-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IE.2010.38
  • Filename
    5673932