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Comment on Wikipedia & Google Scholar as “pre-search” by CRM

CRM — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:15:09 +0000

Unlike Google Scholar, which crawls the web for academic content, Windows Live Academic Search works closely with publishers and uses structured feeds to build its index. As such, all content accessed through the service comes directly from a trusted source—namely, the publisher of a scholarly journal.

Comment on How Big Is Google Scholar? 500 million Documents? by Richard Price

Richard Price — Tue, 03 May 2011 17:13:46 +0000

Cool article. Out of interest, how did you estimate that Google Scholar’s index was 500 million documents? According to this report by the STM Association, there are only 1.5 million articles published per year
http://www.stm-assoc.org/2009_10_13_MWC_STM_Report.pdf

It would take 357 years of publishing at that rate to get to an index of 500 million papers. Presumably there are some non-papers in the Google Scholar index, but presumably not that many.

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Comment on Wikipedia & Google Scholar as “pre-search” by SciPlore

SciPlore — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:41:18 +0000

if you are using google scholar our article “on the robustness of google scholar against spam” might be interesting for you. we have analyzed how difficult it is to spam google scholar and manipulate e.g. citation counts. in short: it is very easy. accordingly it might make sense to use data from google scholar (especially citation data) with care. read here the full article: http://sciplore.org/blog/2010/06/12/new-paper-on-the-robustness-of-google-scholar-against-spam/

Comment on ‘Searching for mum’ – Margaret Hope Lowe Giustini, 1942-2008 by James mckenna

James mckenna — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:08:03 +0000

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Comment on ‘Searching for mum’ – Margaret Hope Lowe Giustini, 1942-2008 by » “The Most Beautiful Thing I’ve Ever Seen” The Search Principle blog

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:21:25 +0000

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Comment on Wikipedia & Google Scholar as “pre-search” by Teaching the Use of Wikipedia and Google Scholar as “Pre-Searching”…02.25.09 « The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian’s Weblog

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:04:34 +0000

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Comment on Here Comes ‘The Search Principle’ – A new era by Dean Giustini

Dean Giustini — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:37:28 +0000

Hi Ben,
And thank you for your comment.

Notice I say “understand how the two search types differ”.

I agree with you that Google can be efficient but not in cumulation.

cheers,
Dean