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British Journal of Anaesthesia 2007 99(5):608-610; doi:10.1093/bja/aem277
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We now use the internet as a source of ready information. We are a broadband society and for many of us, access to the web is so simple that we go there the drop of a hat. Searches for health information, done by ‘consumers’, usually take about 5 min.1 How do these searches work? Search engines such as Google and Yahoo are searchable databases of ‘snapshots’ of websites and other internet resources. These databases are topped up by ‘spiders’ (really just a software program) that follow the links from one page to another, sending home the snapshot of each new page that they link to. This accumulation of websites for the search engine database does not involve any quality control, and often means that the database is a little out of date as web pages are updated. The way these search engines work . . . [Full Text of this Article]

G. B. Drummond* and M. F. Dozier

University Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine
51 Little France Crescent
Edinburgh EH16 4SU
UK
Medicine and Veterinary Medicine Libraries
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ
UK

* E-mail: g.b.drummond@ed.ac.uk


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