[Web4lib] new scholarly content in (vanilla) Google?

John Fink john.fink at gmail.com
Mon Feb 25 11:28:34 EST 2008


Can you give us an example of what search returned JSTOR results?  I'd like
to see it!

jf

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Rudy Leon <rudy.leon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some google searches this morning consistently brought back results
> from JSTOR, which is a very new wrinkle 9at least to me).
>
> If I recall correctly, Google spiders were not allowed to crawl sites
> they did not have full access to, and thus Google Scholar was born to
> have different rules and allow the spidering of journal home pages and
> other password blocked sites. However, this morning's results were in
> plain old vanilla google, and also failed to include the "Full text @"
> links we see from Schoogle results.
>
> Has anyone any solid information about this? Have Google's rules
> changed? What else is now being crawled by regular google spiders?
> Will scholar be eliminated? Bueller?
>
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