I used to say the Internet is a plethora of information. A plethora of opportunities that it has made the deserving entrepreneurs super rich overnight etcetera, etcetera. While the advantages are many with the world wide web and search engines, we, medical transcriptionists, have a disadvantage. While searching the net for certain keywords, we face a sort of information overload. With the search engines displaying the keywords from all sites, not even relevant to medicine, we don’t get accurate information. How could it be if a search engine searches and displays only a medical term that we look for? Only from sites that are relevant to medical fraternity alone. Or rather from only a set of predefined sites? Isn’t that a good idea?
Yes, it is. Hence I hunted for one such custom-made medical transcription search engine for medical transcriptionists alone. I found one or two built by MTs, but the resources/searched pages were limited. The results were not satisfactory. Then I got a spark of an idea. Why not tailor a good one to solve the needs of the total medical transcription community?!
With that in mind, I started creating my own search engine, MT Google, on Google domain itself. With the resources offered by Google. A search engine that searches predefined sites. Preferably sites related to medicine and medical transcription. I started trying it for the past couple of months along with my fellow transcriptionists. While trying it in our day-to-day queries for words, we found the results to be pretty much satisfactory. We started by programming to search only around 100 sites initially. By now the number has gone up gradually to around 800 sites. We are still adding sites regularly to our custom-built search engine.
googleMT
With its success, we decided to move it on to a self-hosted domain. For remembering the name easily and for easy access to the medical transcription community. Hence the birth of googleMT, on November 10, 2008.
The domain MTGoogle was already with Google. So we went for the domain googleMT.
The search results are pretty much satisfactory. Fine tuning is still going on. Deserves to say that it’s a good medical transcription word seeker. Or still better a “custom-made Google for medical transcriptionists.”
Try it, make it as your home page/bookmark for your future searches. Come up with suggestions to further improve its performance. Spread the word to the medical transcription community.
Come on, together let’s break those brainteasing words. Especially those from the mouth of mumbling doctors with the aid of googleMT. However, note that your feedbacks are vital to conquer those unexplored territories and to make this project a grand success.
This is a copy of Google for mt is n’t it? Why didn’t you name it Raj & Co?
Won’t it be like “two swords in one scabbard?” Raj & Co domain name was already taken by me two years back!
i too want to make my search engine for medical transcription. can you please share the hosting cost and other details with me?
Google itself is providing free space on its own domain for custom search engines, and there are tons and tons of other hosting services available with packages starting from mere $1 to hundreds of dollars a month. Better find yourself a good host and other details by googling yourself to suit your pocket!
You are taking American transcription jobs? That is pretty scary considering that your writing skills are terrible.
LOL. Thanks for the compliments. None of my clients have expressed a concern like this so far!
Yes I am doing American medical transcription job for the past eleven years. You don’t have to be an American novelist to take up American transcription jobs! Just a sharp ear will do and the ability to understand American English. A medical transcriptionist is not going to be an author writing stories but just a typist typing what the doctor says.
this looks good — have given it to our editors to test it out .
thanks
the xanadu team
Thanks.
94.83% of the hits that googleMT currently receives is from the United States, and India accounts only 0.75% of the total hits received. That clearly depicts how successful it is in the US and how the Indian MTs are not utilizing it effectively.
I just recently discovered GoogleMT and think it’s wonderful. I wish I had found it sooner. I am a medical transcriptionist in the US, and I think that your written English is very good. No one in the US has created a proper search engine for MTs in all of the 16+ years I have been doing this, so I plan on using this one. So shut up “CMM.” If you think you can do better, go ahead. Meanwhile, thank you Raj for creating this very helpful tool from a very grateful transcriptionist. I have already started to pass it on.
Thank you Sheryl. I am humbled. I’ll do my best in fine tuning gMT.