I saw that. It has the potential to be really really cool, though I wonder where they're getting their data. If they restrict it to "what's already available online" that will be less than useful for me. :(
Yeah, I'm with her. They seem to have a great deal more to say on science than on classics -- indeed, they have a great deal more to say on science if one searches for "Juvenal"!
Wow. Interesting idea. I have to give them credit. They do seem to be trying to take over the world. Not sure if it will be better than the library servies, but it's a cool idea.
It's better than the library services[1] right now in that it's free. It's not better than the library services (and may never be) in that the reason it's free is that no one has to do much work to get it to work. Library services like PsycINFO cost money because someone has to get paid to sit there and enter all the information about each article. My best guess as to what Google Scholar does is that it just crawls journal websites (and possibly other relevant sites) to find relevant citations that *they* paid to post, as many of them do have tables of contents online right now, although typically you can't get the actual article for free.
[1] with the exception of PubMED (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi), which is a government-run blessing for people with no university affililation and some scientific clue who find themselves with some odd medical problem and don't want to rely solely on their GP for information about it.
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Date: 2004-11-19 07:09 am (UTC)[1] with the exception of PubMED (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi), which is a government-run blessing for people with no university affililation and some scientific clue who find themselves with some odd medical problem and don't want to rely solely on their GP for information about it.
Ars shows us the way
Date: 2004-11-20 01:16 pm (UTC)The indexing comes from two sources, mainly: online materials, and Google's own on-going indexing of offline materials such as books and papers."
So, it is more than just crawling things easily available online.