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New academic search engine from Google » KaraS » Larry Hoover

Posted by Jonathan on November 23, 2004, at 11:00:32

In reply to Re: Good engine...Thanks! (nm) » Jonathan, posted by Larry Hoover on November 7, 2004, at 11:12:56

http://www.scholar.google.com/

Click on "About Google Scholar" for FAQ.

It seems to use a similar ranking algorithm to Google Web Search, with citations treated as links and given a high weight. The limited set of academic sites, journals and books covered should make rankings harder to manipulate: to see how this can be done to http://www.google.com/ , type in "French military victories" or "miserable failure", then click on "I'm Feeling Lucky", which takes you straight to the top ranked page. But see http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/psycho/20041113/msgs/415552.html .

When I tested it on "lithium orotate" it found only 18 hits, nearly all journal papers and nothing from Psycho-Babble: http://www.scirus.com/ found 118 including 51 journal references. Since Google Scholar is still in beta test (without those annoying ads!), coverage will probably improve with time.

Jonathan.


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