Good morning,

I've recently been updating our literature on Pubmed and hadn't noticed this feature - it is in fact a very recent addition, it appears to have been added on the 7th February, according to the New/Noteworthy page: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/new.html

Does anyone else find it annoying that one can't sign up to some sort of technical alert bulletin? There have been a number of changes to Pubmed over the past couple of weeks which weren't really announced - Cubby has changed to My NCBI (though that bit of news did make it to the home page), the way a text search is interpreted has become more complex, the look of the site has changed slightly, a "save search" link has now appeared next to the main search box, and no doubt there are other things I haven't picked up on yet.

Oh well, rant over, have a nice day,

Ruth
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-----Original Message-----
From: UK medical/ health care library community / information workers
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Wentz, Reinhard
Sent: 09 February 2005 17:58
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Subject: ?New Feature on PubMed: 'Did you mean?'


Dear All, 

I always liked the Google feature 'Did you mean?', which, for me as a poor speller, is often very helpful; occasionally, after carefully checking the spelling of an unusual term or concept, I say 'no' and insist that my spelling is correct. 

The best PubMed could do was an indication 'one word cannot be found' and you then had to check its spelling.

***Today I saw for the first time that PubMed has a 'Did you mean?' feature, just like Google.

This is a great - I just wonder when it was introduced? 

It's so difficult to stay ahead of all new features on PubMed and elsewhere...

Best wishes,  

Reinhard 

Reinhard Wentz Dipl Bibl
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