Comments on: Google Scholar Launches: A Hint of Things to Come?

By: Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:49:49 +0000

not so easy to create a page rank with scholar articles…

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By: David Scott Lewis

David Scott Lewis — Sat, 20 Nov 2004 03:42:00 +0000

Good for Google. But there's a bit of a problem. I haven't empirically validated this, but it sure seems like there are FEWER IT-related academic papers and reports put on the web each year. It seems like uploading papers was a fad, of sorts, in the late 90's, but has since been on a decline. Simply check CiteSeer and the NCSTRL. BTW, I concur with Kristen: Scirus is pretty good. Getting a lot of links to papers costing US$25 each, though, gets a bit tiring.

By: Kendall Willets

Kendall Willets — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 04:31:15 +0000

The way I heard it is that the citeseer people gave up on their search engine when they realized that Google would do a good enough job. Citeseer extracts and publishes as hyperlinks the citations in each paper, and Google applies the Pagerank, which, of course, was borrowed originally from academic citation analysis. It's come full circle.

Steve Lawrence apparently worked on the citeseer search, and given the above ended up pursuing opportunitie$ at Google.

By: William H.

William H. — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 04:04:54 +0000

Citeseer’s content is great but its search engine leaves a lot to be desired. A lot of people do a google site restricted search (using google advanced search)on Citeseer to get the best of both worlds. So much people must have used google on citeseer that it peeked Anurag Acharya interest in developing this search engine.

By: Kristen Philipkoski

Kristen Philipkoski — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:46:06 +0000

Another one is Scirus: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,62979,00.html. This is probably a sad day for them.

By: Cole

Cole — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:01:01 +0000

I was dying for this the entire time I was in college (Google was still better than 90% of the academic databases we used anyway so no big deal). This reminds me of a post on MarginalRevolution that has to do with academic journals:

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2004/11/a_market_for_jo.html

By: David Pennock

David Pennock — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:37:12 +0000

A very good and widely used vertical search engine for scholarly/academic papers (mainly computer science papers) is CiteSeer, including automatic citation indexing.

Interestingly, the main developer of CiteSeer (Steve Lawrence) now works for Google.

By: resid

resid — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:02:14 +0000

Google says, by the way, that it does not earn money off of any new subscriptions generated between searchers and publishers. Aren’t they loosing some bussiness here?