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Comparisons: Selected Search Engine Issues
| Site Name |
Available |
Retrieval* |
Boolean** |
Wildcards/
Truncation |
Help |
| Achoo |
 |
4 |
|
|
|
| Biosites |
|
4 |
|
|
|
| Cliniweb |
|
2 |
 |
|
|
| Einet Galaxy |
|
1 |
|
|
|
| GHN |
|
|
|
|
|
| Health on the Net |
|
1 |
|
|
|
| HealthAtoZ |
|
1 |
|
|
|
| healthfinder |
|
1 |
|
|
|
| HealthLinks |
|
4 |
|
|
|
| HealthWeb |
|
|
|
|
|
| HSLS, U. Pittsburgh |
|
|
|
|
|
| Martindale's |
|
|
|
|
|
| Magellan/McKinley |
|
3 |
|
|
|
| MedExplorer |
|
4 |
|
|
|
| MedFinder |
|
5 |
|
|
|
| Medical Matrix |
|
2 |
|
|
|
| Medical World Search |
|
1 |
|
|
|
| MedWeb |
|
4 |
|
|
|
| MMRL |
|
2 |
|
|
|
| NOAH |
|
2 |
|
|
|
| OMNI |
|
3 |
|
|
|
| Virtual Hospital |
|
4 |
|
|
|
| WebDoctor |
|
4 |
|
|
|
| WWWVL: Medicine |
|
|
|
|
|
| Yahoo! |
|
1 |
|
|
|
* NOTE: Retrieval is measured on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being highest, giving
the most accurate and relevant results. "5" was also used if the search engine was
frequently down during repeated efforts to test the search engine.
** NOTE: Boolean operators other than "and" which is assumed as a default.
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