Trip (search engine)

Trip is a free clinical search engine used in the United Kingdom to help clinicians identify research evidence, in part for creating systematic reviews.^[1]

Trip
Developer(s)	Trip Database Ltd
Type	Search engine
License	Proprietary
Website	Trip

History

The site was created in 1997 by Jon Brassey and Chris Price in Gwent, South Wales.^[2] In 1999, one source reported it aggregated results from 25 websites.^[3] In 2003, Trip became a subscription-only service. This was abandoned In September 2006 and in 2015 followed a freemium business model. Originally "Trip" stood for Turning Research Into Practice.^[4]

Usage

Between May 2004 and May 2005, 620,735 searches were undertaken.^[2]