Google Scholar
As many of you know search is a hobby of mine.. I don’t directly make money from it, I just find the high level thought process interesting to study.. I’ll let the pros work out the deatily stuff and then just pump them for info to make my websites better..
Anyway, Google has released another beta search engine called Google Scholar.. This beta engine is geared solely toward academic papers, patents, abstracts, etc.. I love it.. A little copy/paste from the about page..
Features of Google Scholar
* Search diverse sources from one convenient place
* Find papers, abstracts and citations
* Locate the complete paper through your library or on the web
* Learn about key papers in any area of research
Interested in the ranking process??
Google Scholar aims to sort articles the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each article, the author, the publication in which the article appears, and how often the piece has been cited in other scholarly literature. The most relevant results will always appear on the first page.
This is a closed search engine from all appearances.. To be included you need to ask for admission in to the SE.. Talk about heavy duty spam control..
While this is cool, and all the other beta searches like Google Books are cool, I see this as the forerunner of things to come.. As more and more pages enter the vast internet, being able to categorize types of sites together to make the search experience better is a good thing.. I see a time coming in the near future where you will search various google portals for more targetted results.. Need an acedemic paper for research, google scholar, looking for a specifc book or quote, google books.. Looking to veiw a little something wearing little less than something, or a big something wearing a little something as your tastes may go, google porn..
It’s a good looking world through google colored glasses..