Google releases Scholar Search
November 20th, 2004 Leave a comment Visited 105 times, 2 so far today
Google releases Scholar Search
In the latest release of its customized search engines, the groups of people to be benefited are Scholars and Scientists. The engine is called Google Scholar and as usual with Google, it is in beta. The engine is developed to compile and make available a comprehensive search engine for research papers available on the web.
The search engine uses material provided by scientific communities with support from academic, scientific, and technical publishers. Some of the sources are Association of Computing Machinery, Nature, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Online Computer Library Center.
For now, the content relevant ads are missing but should appear in the coming time considering this branch of technology can be very lucrative to Google when it comes to sponsored ads. The man behind this search from Google is an Indian dude! Mr. Anurag Acharya says the idea behind this engine was to give something back to academic community for their contribution to the success of Google. A post on Google Blog has more information…
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November 21st, 2004 at 1:37 am
Just like to state that I think this is a geat idea and would be a nice tool to have in the future. good luck!
-bob
November 21st, 2004 at 2:57 am
Nice to see some competition to the FAST (Alltheweb) powered http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/ :)
November 21st, 2004 at 9:46 am
Perspicacity, that is what I like about Google.
November 22nd, 2004 at 7:00 am
A few guys got together one day, and realized they could use everyone elses computing power to look for aliens – it was a good cause, the software was not downloaded without prior consent, and they even told you what it would do while you were asleep.
Another couple of guys with absolutely no ethics in regards to ‘privacy’ had a similar idea – except they just wanted to use that extra power to advertise things you need back at you. You might wonder how they know what to send you? You might also wonder if you are paying for the privilege – well your cpu is, and your download monitor knows that 20% of your downloads over the internet are adds now – of course everybody in the world can afford unlimited broadband – well maybe they could if the www infrastructure could support it – more people online, better technology, cheaper for everyone right?
If you are like me, still waiting for 5cent phone calls, don’t hold your breath.
The best search engine was, if I am not mistaken, invented by a librarian, and existed long before your own personal super cool Google search engine. If you disagree with me, try Tim Berners-Lee’s thinking out for size – he wanted to redesign the www accordingly several years ago to add ‘categories’ like a library catalogue.
What would we do without Google?