A new website searchingpediatrics.com has been recently launched; this website not only can be accessed on a desktop browser but also on any mobile phone that has browsing capability and it can be looked up on the go while we walk around the hospital corridors!
Here’s how it looked like on a Windows Mobile screen and similar pages will be seen with Palm and Blackberry but unfortunately it is not so easily navigated on the iPhone as you have to zoom in with every new page.
The idea is that when we search Google for a certain pediatric topic the search engine will look up all the billions of pages throughout the entire world wide web and not infrequently it may return search results that are not high yield or at least not of interest to us ‘pediatricians’.
This website essentially configures Google to search only the websites that pediatricians trust and rely on when looking up evidence based pediatric information online. So the Google Custom Search will look up emedicine, AAP policies and guidelines , Pediatrics journal, Bright Futures, Epocrates, and a number of other high profile pediatric online resources.
Consequently, it bypasses the burden of skimming and filtering mainstream Google results and delivers highly specific page results tailored to our pediatric needs. So for example I searched Google for Febrile Seizures and I searched searchingpediatrics.com for the same keyword [see screenshots above] and guess what? You’ll have all the unnecessary pages results removed such as those targeting consumers and general public and you’ll get only the results that we actually look for.
Isn’t that great? This is just like having a special Pediatric Google!
Now, You may or may not agree with the list of websites that this custom search includes and you can contact the site owner if you have any suggestion.
This is just another step towards web based applications where we actually find everything online instead of the traditional local computer or even PDA hard drives.
You can also have searchingpediatrics as your default search engine when you download the LinkedPeds toolbar.
The website is founded by Donna M. D’Alessandro, M.D the founder of Generalpediatrics.com a website that helped thousands of pediatricians locate useful pediatric information on the internet and we should really thank her for such a brilliant idea.
