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The PubMed Toolbar & other PubMed Tools

With 1300+ downloads and a max of 320 simultaneous users the PubMed Toolbar for many a useful browser toolbar on a daily basis. Here is a short summary of a little survey run via the Toolbar and on the NLM Toolbars Blog. See the Slides Below that are some other tools to use PubMed inside your browser. EXTRA 1:  be sure to check this article on 3rd Party PubMed Tools: Lu Z.  PubMed and beyond: a survey of web tools for searching biomedical literature.  Database . 2011 Jan;2011. doi:  http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/database/baq036 EXTRA 2: Alternative PubMed Interfaces , a blog post in the "almost 23 Things for Medical Librarians"  PubMed Toolbar Survey : short results overview of a Conduit Toolbar View more presentations from Guus van den Brekel In the "ALT PUBMED" Menu of the  Pubmed Toolbar  even more nice tools are to be discovered in the section PUBMED TOOLS. Added Today: If you have a Conduit Toolbar, you can  Add PubMed ...

Toolbar Search Conduit also available in Web page format

An option for people who can not (or not allowed to )install toolbars: go to the web page of the search box via:  search.conduit.com/?ctid=CT142118 Replace the CT number for your Toolbar number!  To be found in the About section. Under MORE you will find ALL the installed custom search engines for direct search.

Good News from Conduit! Search boxes, widgets, Apps & Extensions back online in 2 weeks!

Today -after extensive contact with Conduit Support via Skype- I got the confirmation and promise that the search service that powers the search boxes, widgets, gadgets and browser extensions, will be restored with the coming new version, to be released within up to two weeks. I am very happy to hear they took my request very seriously and decided - as a token of appreciation and because I have been a loyal publisher for years- to support this service again! In one of my previous posts you can read what the extent of the problem is for me : Small changes, big impact? Conduits growth & problems for me http://digicmb.blogspot.com/2011/06/small-changes-big-impact-conduits.html As token of appreciation back, I will change all boxes with a direct reference back to Conduit , like in this one: More exciting news to come from Conduit ... as I was told that a new version of the Custom HTML for Mobile should be released very soon. Now I am not sure if this will ma...

Social Media Counts by Gary Hayes

Click for App Store Page http://www.personalizemedia.com/garys-social-media-count/ Living statistics (Jan 2011 update)  

Small changes, big impact? Conduits growth & problems for me

Something changed last week. I don't know exactly when. I don't know what. I don't know why. But in one blow, all my work of the last 5 years on tailor-made html searchboxes seems to be completely switched off, made useless. It seems Conduit changed something in it's backoffice searchengine servers, changing the search syntax, but - as stated before I do not know anything about it. Of course I know they changed their default basic search engine into Bing, instead of Google. But I have not read anything about changes into search syntax . Here is an simple exeample of how they look like (and how they were working uptill somewhere last week) ALL created widgets in eco.netvibes.com (34)and widgetbox.com (>50) using custom search engines from created Conduit toolbars either just show a Bing powered search result page, or a Google powered search result page. These widgets have been installed -in some cases- thousands of times, like this PubMed Searchbox (3663...