Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Tag Cloud for MedlibBLOG and Consumer Health Search engine?

With the really cool Medlibblog search and the Consumer Health and Patient Education search engines we have two very nice options to search, but I wonder if it is possible to produce somehow:
  • a Tag Cloud of these CSE resources or even get
  • an RSS-feed on all that is new?
Instead of searching we could browse and see what's new & hot. Who knows how to tackle this the best way? My first guess would be:

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Guus-

For the MedLib Blogs:

A Tag Cloud could not easily be made via a Google CSE. I'm sure that by now you've noticed that one of the failings of the Google CSEs is that search results can ONLY be sorted by Google PageRank. This bothers me endlessly.

As for as having updates about what is new in the MedLib blogs collectively, I already set up a feed for that via LibWorm:
http://www.libworm.com/rss/index.php/Medical-Librarianship/11/

As for re-entering these new items from MedLib blogs into a new site/page, I requested a Megite to be made of these blogs as well that accomplishes this while looking for commonalities between them and suggesting other resources that are talking about the same things. You can see it here:

http://www.megite.com/medlib

Best,

-David