Thing 11 - Social Tagging & Search

My medical search terms certainly produced wildly varying hits.
Del.icio.us found 17 hits with 2 terms. Tags used were appropriate but results were newsy and lightweight not medical enough. Some of the advanced search suggestions were useful.
Connotea Gave up on connecting to this - too slow.
CiteULike was good, retrieving 119 relevant hits - not too overwhelming with a medical focus. I would use this again.
Murdoch catalogue subject search provided only 2 hits which is to be expected for this topic.
UQs catalogue was much better at getting to relevant content within books dealing with broader medical conditions. Included ways to quickly refine your search.
Google, well 98,000 hits! Needless to say I didn't proceed beyond the first couple of pages! I found myself becoming strangely less interested in my topic. My librarian ways were beginning to emerge - give me some controlled headings and focused searching techniques!
Google Scholar would be a better way to go than Google but still 633 hits albeit more scholarly.
Zuula This was new to me as were all the search engines on it except for Google and Yahoo. Varying results in each. Too much information on my topic.
Kartoo Maybe I am a visual learner. I liked this very much. I hope to remember to go here again.