And the quality of results there seems to have gone downhill now too. I can turn to Scholar to find a lost article, only to have to go through pages. Again, I t

And the quality of results there seems to have gone downhill now too. I can turn to Scholar to find a lost article, only to have to go through pages. Again, I think it's also geared towards the common and the popular at the expense of the detailed and the idiosyncratic - it's just using a different definition of common and popular. Ten years ago, I gave up subject specific databases for Google Scholar. For most of that time, I was happy. Nowadays I wish I had access to a subject specific db. As for paywalls: I sometimes find better results by adding filetype:pdf to the title of an article in DDG than I do in scholar. They're both completely hit and miss. I think they're trying to respect copyright more nowadays than before. Unfortunately, of all the unreasonable copyrights in the world, journals and academic books are the most unreasonable, since they're trying to get libraries to buy them.