PharmaLiveSearch pharmaceutical search engine
With PharmaLive Search, results are focused specifically on authoritative sources for the pharmaceutical professional. PharmaLive provides several important refinements of the search process that are particularly relevant to pharmaceutically related searches.
PharmaLive Search has three different search scopes from which to choose.
‘Publisher recommended sites’ designates a set of over 25 000 000 documents from more than 2600 domains and focused on the most relevant pharmaceutical sites as chosen by editors of the top pharmaceutical publications. As a result, you begin searching in results from which spam and irrelevant documents have already been filtered.
The second scope, ‘Search PharmaLive’, provides the option to search results the Pharmalive site and its article archive. We give you the ability to search the Pharmalive archives including two of its flagship print publications, Med Ad News and R&D Directions.
Finally, if you should so choose, you can select to search across the entire web as well, the results that we return haven’t been focused on hand-selected domains, but are ranked for relevance and filtered for spam.
Search Categories
Within each scope you can further search by categories, represented by tabs at the top of the search results. PharmaLive Search categorizes results into different categories specific to the needs of pharmaceutical professional, based on the type of information source. These categories have been designed to allow users to find the results they’re looking for much more quickly.
Categories within the publisher recommended sites include:
* Companies (results from the top pharmaceutical companies in the industry)
* Government (results taken from top drug sites)
* Research and Development (results taken from drug research organizations)
* Media (results culled from top journals and pharmaceutical publications)
* Associations (results from the sites of various health and medical related organizations)
Main results
The main results for your query are listed in the largest central window of the results page, ranked by considering relevance to the query and how recently the documents have been published. Click on the title of each result to go to the document. A ‘P’ symbol shows that the information in the document is password protected and/or requires a subscription. You may need to register with the organization responsible for the website to get full access to that document. A PDF symbol next to a results shows that page is available in Portable Document Format only.
Only the first page of your results is shown initially. Click on the numbers after ‘Page 1 of…’ to see further results pages.
Sometimes people wonder why the number of search results is approximate, .e.g, ‘1 to 10 of about 805′. Searches may return many results from the same domain or multiple copies of the same page, e.g., a widely posted press release. Every search carried out on the internet returns duplicate pages and multiple results from each domain. This is because we may have crawled identical pages from several different locations, or there may be several versions of the same page that differ only very slightly.
PharmaLive Search filters out duplicates and therefore the number of results initially reported will almost always be greater than the actual number available. It would be impractical to attempt to calculate the exact number of filtered results. If you wish to see all results, including duplicates, go to the last search results page and click on the link at the bottom of the results.
PharmaLive Search is also unique in that it implements knowledge of the vocabulary associated with the pharmaceutical industry. We recognize many industry specific acronyms, e.g., ‘FDA’ or ‘ALS’, and industry synonyms, e.g., that references ‘high blood pressure’ and ‘hypertension’ are used interchangeably. We also recognize more general and specific concepts for many drugs and diseases. For example, brand names or generic versions of many drugs. We use this knowledge to increase the accuracy of searches, improve displayed results and retrieve more relevant results.
Other Features:
Broader terms and Narrower Terms
For many queries a “broader term” / “narrower term” link appears at the top of the page. When we recognize concepts from the query, we’ll provide the option to start a new search on a more specific (narrower term) or more general (broader term) concept. For example, a query on a type of generic anxiety drug might provide the option to query on ‘anxiety drug’ in general or perhaps branded versions of the drug. Click on one of these to launch a new search on that concept.
Related Concept
To left of the main results, you’ll find a box marked ‘related concepts’. Click on the links in here to find results related to the topic you searched for.
Did you mean?
If we think there’s a misspelling in a word in the query, you’ll find a ‘Did you mean’ query under the line saying ‘Search results for…’ Click on the link to repeat the search with the alternative spelling suggested.
Search With This Meaning
If your results are coming back with a ‘Search With This Meaning’ link or links at the top of the page, it means that we’ve recognized your query as having more than one possible interpretation, e.g., queries with ambiguous terms. In these cases we’ll often choose a reasonable initial interpretation but allow users to select different interpretations as displayed by the ‘Search With This Meaning’ links.
