Let’s be honest, who doesn’t like top 10 lists? VH1 was practically built on this idea.

Top10tag.com is a website committed to taking the most bizarre, high-quality products and service reviews, links to most amazing websites, innovative and useful tools, interesting and fun stuff, and putting it all together in an easy-to-read top 10 list.

So when top10tag.com compiled a list of of the best specialized search engines, it was no surprise that Google was nowhere to be found.

Top10tag.com named Mednar Medical Search Engine (Mednar)#5 in the Top 10 Best Specialized Search Engines. Mednar uses Deep Web Technologies‘ federated search engine to segment multiple medical databases where Google, Google Health, or many other general search engines do not have access.

The list appears to be comprised of specialized technologies that create a unique user experience which may prove difficult for a single company to maintain. Getting back to my previous example, Google has many specialized searches. However, at this time,  they do not satisfy some of the grasp and depth users require out of their search engine information. Since Mednar and the technology behind it  provides access to a large, high-quality collection of medical research content not available anywhere else, it was a “shoo-in” to say the least.

Google is great for a variety of reasons that we may all agree with: calendar, document storage, VOIP services, data, etc. However, when it comes to outside-the-box search needs such as images without keywords, sounds, and databases in the deep web to name a few, we may also attest that Google is heavily restricted.

In order to stand out from the crowd, Deep Web Technologies is committed to bringing the highest quality technology, and relevant data to the user by the fastest methods possible.

What kind of specialized search engines do you believe will exist in the near future?

It’s fairly common for researchers to monitor a specific topic they are interested in. In the case of Mednar, it’s often a specific disease or a specific treatment regime. An alert in Explorit works just like an Google Alert.  After creating an account, you can login into thealerts section of Mednar. Click on the “create” button and you be presented with a form for creating an alert.

It’s here where we can begin to see the real power of alerts. Alerts allow you to monitor a specific search term in a wide variety of search fields. For example in Mednar users can search in full text, title and author. You can also monitor multiple fields at the same time. This allows you for example to monitor the work by a specific author on a specific topic.

You can also select which databases on which to run an alert. Alerting isn’t a commonly supported feature by many sources since alerting requires a significant allocation of hardware resources. This allows you overlay this significant functionality over multiple databases and have presentation normalized.

For Mednar Alerts you can select the alerting interval (most users select weekly) and have the option of having your alert delivered either via RSS or ATOM. This opens even more possibilities for the sophisticated user. You can take that RSS feed and consume it in an internal CMS or add the feed to your blog. It makes it easy to share the information with other users or consume the information in your intranet.

Alerting makes it easy to track information and discover what other people might be doing in your field. It’s a feature on many of our web sites such as Mednar, Biznar, and many of our customers such as Science.gov and Scitopia.