Firefox enhancements for Google

I’m restricted to Internet Explorer on the job, but I love being able to customize Firefox at home.
Dennis O’Reilly at the Worker’s Edge passes on some hints for optimizing Google searching with his post Three Firefox add-ons enhance Google.  The add-ons:

GoogleEnhancer, which  pulls some of the Advanced Search options into drop-down boxes next to the [...]

Epidemiology in the age of Google

Canadian researchers, back in 2006, called it Infodemiology — using volume and locations of Internet searches to track influenza outbreaks. Dr. Gunther Eysenbach’s paper notes that:
The “Google ad sentinel method” proved to be more timely, more accurate and – with a total cost of Can$365.64 for the entire flu-season – considerably cheaper than the traditional [...]

Metasearch on the Cheap: More on Google CSE

As I continue to explore http://www.google.com/coop/cse/, I’m finding it even more useful. Thinking of the example of Google Scholar, I realized that I could set up a search engine to search across many of my IP-validated resources. Essentially what I’m finding: if Google can see it, it can be included.
Some things I have been able [...]

Customized Website Search Engines

David Rothman has taken the list of medical library websites published by M.D. Hardin (http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/hslibs.html) and built a Custom Search Engine to search them: http://davidrothman.net/medical-library-search-engine/.
Custom Google Search is available free, and even ad-free for nonprofits. I tried this out; take a look at my “EBP Site Search.” After refining it a bit [...]

Why your web search results and mine are not the same

I recently asked, on the MHSLA listserv, for some help with finding a web-based resource about which I had very little information. I turned up a few possibilities; my colleagues, also running web searches, directed me to other sites that I had not found. While it’s likely that some of the difference in [...]