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Re: evaluation of internet websites about ROP patient education
Submit responseDear Editor,
I would like to congratulate the author for this interesting manuscript.
Our ability to find the information we seek on the Internet is a function of how precise our queries are and how effectively we use search services. Poor queries return poor results; good queries return great results. Contrary to the hype surrounding "intelligent agents" and "artificial intelligence," the fact remains that search results are only as good as the query you pose and how you search. There is no silver bullet.
Of the keywords used in the study namely "retinopathy of prematurity", "ROP", "premature eye" and "premature retina", which key word provided good quality information both technically and quality wise?
Based on this study will it be possible to suggest possible, or the best, keyword/s which will yield good quality and highly specific information for ROP?
What is the reason to pick only the first 30 sites? does it have anything to do with the specificity of the keyword? Like the first 30 sites displayed being highly specific!
The following are some links to search tips that you will find very useful.
http://library.ups.edu/research/srchtips.htm
http://www.google.com/help/basics.html
http://www.hull.ac.uk/lib/text_only/infoskills/effweb.html
http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/library/lr/webresearch.html
http://www.accesswave.ca/~hgunn/searching/Thanks for your time.
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