googleMT-Custom Made Search Engine For Medical Transcriptionists

By Raj | Nov 12, 2008

I used to say 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 too while searching the net for certain keywords; a sort of information overload, with the search engines highlighting and displaying the keywords from all sorts of sites, sites not even relevant to medicine for the words that we search for, that we’re unable to get accurate information from an authority site. Hey, how could it be if a search engine, say Google, searches and displays a medical term that we look for, only from sites that are relevant to medical transcription alone or relevant to medicine only or from a set of predefined sites? Isn’t that a good idea?

Yes it is, and hence I hunted for such custom-made search engines for medical transcriptionists alone and found one or two built by MTs, but the resources/searched pages were limited and I was not satisfied with the results. Then got a spark of 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, and 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 and scrutiny before zeroing in on the exact term, we found the results to be pretty much satisfactory. We started by programing to search only around 100 sites initially and by now the number has gone up gradually to around 800 sites and we’re still adding sites regularly to our custom-built search engine.

Medical transcription word seeker, Custom made Google for medical transcriptionists, googleMT

With its success, we decided to move it on to a self-hosted domain for remembering the name easily and for easy access of the medical transcription community, hence the birth of googleMT, on November 10, 2008.

Since the domain MTGoogle was already taken by Google, we had to settle with the domain googleMT. (Hope we don’t end up with a legal tangle with Google in our curiosity/venture for having taken a domain name so close to their domain name!)

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 can be said as “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 and spread the word to medical transcription community. (Alternatively, you can bookmark the former one, MT Google, that’s still available on the Google domain itself, we will be updating both simultaneously.)

Come on, together let’s break those brainteasing words (especially those from the mouth of mumbling doctors) with the aid of googleMT, but note that your feedbacks are vital to conquer those unexplored territories and to make this project a grand success.

8 Responses to “googleMT-Custom Made Search Engine For Medical Transcriptionists”

Santhosh on April 3rd, 2009, at 10:28 am said:

This is a copy of Google for mt is n’t it? Why didn’t you name it MT Herald?

Santhosh on April 3rd, 2009, at 10:30 am said:

i too want to make my search engine for medical transcription. can you please share the hosting cost and other details with me?

Raj on April 3rd, 2009, at 11:14 am said:

Won’t it be like “two swords in one scabbard?” MT Herald domain name was already taken by me two years back!

Raj on April 3rd, 2009, at 11:23 am said:

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!

cmm on February 1st, 2010, at 3:33 pm said:

You are taking American transcription jobs? That is pretty scary considering that your writing skills are terrible.

Raj on February 2nd, 2010, at 12:49 am said:

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.

Akshat on February 2nd, 2010, at 4:02 am said:

this looks good — have given it to our editors to test it out .

thanks

the xanadu team

Raj on February 2nd, 2010, at 4:41 am said:

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.