Welcome to the Schoogle Era

[Eric Hellman]

Google Scholar. Wow!

I schoogle myself; 
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=es+hellman&btnG=Search 
and the results are almost perfect.

the cited-by is very good, perhaps the most impressive of all
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=link:YJaEpgpGhzwJ:scholar.google.com/

the clustering (aka deduping) is rather interesting
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cluster=13310832962936951298

subject searches work very well as long as the subject is arcane and 
specialized. this is not a great tool for broad-subject research.

Elsevier content seems absent; so perhaps metasearch products have a 
lot of life left.

Worldcat seems to provide most [book] content.

Sparse results in the humanities- "sung dynasty" returns 231 results 
and 5890 for "leonardo da vinci" compared to 212,000 for "stem cell"

the [citation] type is odd- many of the results could have been matched up.

this shows some Steve Lawrence's (ex CiteSeer, now at Google) 
fingerprints in a number of places.

I think a significant number of library-world databases have just 
become marginal niche products.

Eric


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