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Dear Jon, This is what Google does, I prefer to not be profiled as it limits my choices and I end up finding what I already know. If there was a way to have a choice and see both suggested and open that would be great plus you could log what people find from the profiled list to see how successful it would be. Amy From: Rakesh Biswas <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: Rakesh Biswas <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:58 AM To: <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Search intentions Thanks Jon, Yes and the other thing we may need to test is to find out the 'context' for each individual search such as the origin of each search requirement ( was it to help individual patients or just an academic query with remote chance of their being able to directly help a patient?) and what was the outcome of their search (did it directly help a patient?). I believe a substantial number of your searchers are trying to help individual patients in which case it may be interesting to see what were the kind of results their searches generated that eventually made a difference to their patients. What was the proportion of Systematic reviews or RCTs or Case-Controls or Case reports in those search results that actually helped to answer their patient related queries and helped to generate decisions that led to a change of the patient outcomes? best, rakesh On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Jon Brassey <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Rakesh, > > Nice to hear from you. > > We have 37,000+ registered users (and lots more unregistered users). It's a > global mix with lots of professions (doctors, nurses etc). > > Given our numbers and traffic I'm thinking we could probably see trends in > usage between professions/countries etc. > > I'm keen to develop a tool and then test it to show it helps. I'm thinking > it'll probably help...! > > BW > > jon > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Rakesh Biswas <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: >> This sounds very interesting! Would be nice to know more about the different >> backgrounds of your searchers. >> >> :-) >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Jon Brassey <[log in to unmask]> >> wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I'm wondering if anyone can link me to any literature on this matter and/or >>> offer an opinion. >>> >>> Search is problematic at the best of times. People frequently search >>> 'poorly' using single terms. At TRIP the most frequent search terms are >>> single disease areas (e.g. diabetes, hypertension) that yield large numbers >>> of results. One thing I'm interested in exploring is can we infer the >>> search intention from the background of the searcher. My thinking is based >>> on a scenario such as 'diabetes'. If you're a UK psychiatrist you are >>> likely to have different information needs than, say, an American >>> diabetologist and different again from a Malian nurse. However, the same >>> search terms are used and the same results returned. In the examples I've >>> highlighted two variables - geography and speciality. But, there could be >>> others e.g. 'rank' (e.g. a newly qualified GP will likely have different >>> information needs to a GP nearing retirement). >>> >>> Does anyone know of any literature that might explore these issues? >>> >>> moving on, and using the above example we could see what paper most >>> psychiatrists look at for the search 'diabetes' (it might normally appear in >>> position 9 of the search results) and for future boost the placement for >>> subsequent psychiatrists searching for diabetes. That';s the high level >>> idea (so no expansion on things such as filter bubbles, clicking=like) etc. >>> >>> I'd never intend to subvert the TRIP algorithm, but allow users to boost >>> their results - if they want to. But does it sound reasonable? >>> >>> BW >>> >>> jon >>> >>> -- >>> Jon Brassey >>> TRIP Database >>> http://www.tripdatabase.com <http://www.tripdatabase.com/> >>> TILT >>> http://tilt.tripdatabase.com <http://tilt.tripdatabase.com/> >>> >>> >> > > > > -- > Jon Brassey > TRIP Database > http://www.tripdatabase.com <http://www.tripdatabase.com/> > TILT > http://tilt.tripdatabase.com <http://tilt.tripdatabase.com/> > >