I’ve been wanting to use Carrot2 for ages and have finally got the chance… Carrot2, as it says on their website “Carrot2 organizes your search results into topics. With an instant overview of what’s available, you will quickly find what you’re looking for“

So, two examples to show you. The first is for a search for ‘prostate cancer screening’ and we used Carrot2 to process just over 250 results and this is the output:

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The second example is using just under 700 results for the search ‘arteriovenous malformation’

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I can’t help feeling this topic clustering might be useful in a number of situations. For instance it’d be a nice way of refining your search or it could be useful to give you an overview of the topics covered. Let me know what you think either via comments or via email jon.brassey@tripdatabase.com.