Link: Healia Communities - health social networking. Healia Communities is an online health community that helps consumers make better health decisions by enabling them to:· Share health knowledge, experiences, and favorite resources with others· Connect with others who’ve experienced similar situations· Ask questions of the ...

4,000 search engines you’ve never heard of. This is the title of an article that I wrote for Alt Search Engines about country and region based search engines. In the article I look at the current state of play for country based search engines, numbers, the correlations or lack of them related to number of engines per country and size, political ...

If you're involved in the pharmaceutical industry you'll want to take a good long look at  Pharma Live Search. It provides information on companies, products, diseases, and therapeutic categories. Alt Search Engines has a really good indepth write up of it.

ResearcherID.com is a global, multi-disciplinary scholarly research community. Each researcher listed is assigned a unique identifier, to aid in solving the common problem of author misidentification. Search the registry to find citations, collaborators, and more. Thanks to Gwen over at Internet News for the headsup on this one.

I Need A Medic! A Health 2.0 Round-up. Very good article on the various medical search engines that are out there. It details 11 different search engines and gives a good quick overview of each of them. I won't repeat it all here - if you're into medical engines, this is a good quick visit.

BizSeer: An academic business search engine and digital library. BizSeer is a publicly available vertical digital library and search engine hosted at Penn State's Smeal College of Business that focuses on academic business documents.

definr - incredibly fast dictionary. Does what it says. Annoying little box that says 'meep!' rather than search though, but maybe I'm just an old grouch.

I found this, and as I'm not a nurse checked it with a good friend who is and said that  Essential Nursing Resources (ICIRN) was good, though it had an American bias. It describes itself as: THE 24TH EDITION of the ICIRN Essential Nursing Resources list (formerly Essential Nursing References) is presented as a resource for locating nursing ...

I gave the closing keynote at the Internet Librarian International 2007 conference on the subject of "Facing the challenge of Web 2.0 as a Disruptive Technology' and people seemed to like it. It's over at Slideshare if you want to take a look, but I've also enclosed a copy below. It doesn't format brilliantly, but it'll give you a flavour.

Visual Medical Dictionary from CureHunter looks promising. The main screen is split into 3 panes, with a search option over on the left. Typing in a term then allows you to select what you're interested in - I was searching for cataract and had the option of looking at the disease or the select therapy/procedure. A mouseover provides more ...