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20 years of Google Scholar
- thepuppet33r 2y agoYes, Google deserves to be distrusted and avoided as a whole, but Google Scholar is a genuinely net good for humanity.
- dumpHero2 2y agoI have similar feeing for Gmail (it's effective anti spam engine), google maps and google docs (which pioneered shared docs. It feels outdated on many fronts now, but it was a pioneer).
- roflmaostc 2y agoanti-spam is only an issue if people dump their email anywhere. I usually register my mail on webpages as first.last+webpage@mail.com and once they would spam this mail, it gets blacklisted. I literally get only 1-3 real spam mails per month without any filter.
- dripton 2y agoWords great, until a page rejects email with a '+' in it.
- 6510 2y agodots are ignored, can filter by john.doe@gmail.com not sure about capital letters
- hks0 2y agoNot everyone's cup of tea, but quite nice if one can afford it: I have my personal domain and a catch-all inbox. So if I want to register at acme-co.xyz I will just use acmecoxyz@my-domain.tld Maybe I should start using random words though? Wonder if someone will go bananas seeing their brand's name on my domain.
- kroltan 2y agoYeah, I've had to explain that a couple times already, usually when dealing with customer support or in-person registrations. And a "malicious" actor can get away with pretending to be another company by spoofing the username if they know your domain works like that. I don't think this has reached spammers' repertoire yet, but I wouldn't be surprised. Eventually I'd like to have a way of generating random email addresses that accept mail on demand, and put everything else in quaraintine automatically.
- AshamedCaptain 2y agoOr just knows about this Gmail trick (it's been 20 years already) and sends spam to your real mailbox. Actually, I am surprised _any_ spammy website these days would even honor the part after the +, and not just directly send to the real mailbox name.
- thechao 2y agoI used to require a "+..." on all emails. Any email that didn't have the "+..." was sent to Spam automagically. My family were whitelisted. I gave up, because too many websites (early on) refused to take the "+..." marker, so I ended up losing too much to Spam. It's easier to just let Google sort it out.
- gnopgnip 2y agoIt's part of RFC 5233 Sieve Email Filtering: Subaddress Extension
- aorth 2y agoGood resource on this trick from 2010. It's not Gmail specific. https://people.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/plus-signs-in-email-addresses.html https://people.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/plus-signs-in-email-a...
- janalsncm 2y agoI see this recommendation everywhere and I am genuinely surprised that it works. Any spammer can find out your real address since there is an obvious mapping from + addresses to your real address. An actual solution would hide this mapping.
- bachmeier 2y agoYeah. Fastmail masked addresses are random. The best you can do is guess that an address might be masked, due to it not being johnsmith@fastmail.com, but it provides no information about your real email address.
- JW_00000 2y agoToo late for most people.
- coderintherye 2y agoGood for users of Gmail, but is it a net good? Gmail spam prevention is great for the Google Apps orgs I manage. However, for the other inboxes the vast majority of spam they receive comes from @gmail.com
- thaumasiotes 2y ago> Gmail spam prevention is great for the Google Apps orgs I manage. Gmail is unlikely to let spam through. But that doesn't make its spam filter great; it's also very prone to blocking personal communication on the grounds that it must actually have been spam. The principle of gmail's spam filter is just "don't let anything through". It would be much better to get more spam and also not have my actual communications disappear.
- whiplash451 2y agoTry MS OneDrive before calling google docs outdated Google spanks everyone else on robustness and responsiveness
- rty32 2y agoYes until it fails https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/27/23978591/google-drive-desktop-data-loss-bug-files-missing-investigation https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/27/23978591/google-drive-de...
- whiplash451 2y agoThat issue got resolved in a few days [1] -- and for each and every one of these extremely rare events at Google, you'll find similar ones at MS. I am referring to robustness at scale and every day: Google released auto-save years before MS. MS pales in comparison in the UX. Note: I have no vested interest in Google, not ex-googler, etc. [1] https://support.google.com/drive/thread/245861992/drive-for-desktop-v84-0-0-0-84-0-4-0-sync-issue?hl=en&sjid=3301319911440675424-EU https://support.google.com/drive/thread/245861992/drive-for-...
- Fogest 2y agoAs much as I try to "de-google" myself and try to avoid being trapped in the Google eco system, I'd definitely choose it over MS Office. I am stuck in the MS Office eco system at work. Some of their products are starting to improve in MS Office, but you can still tell it's a lot of hacks ontop of old systems. Especially when it comes to the whole teams/onedrive/sharepoint side of things. One of my biggest gripes right now is that we heavily rely on Microsoft Teams. A lot of our work laptops still are stuck on 8gb of ram. I find Microsoft Teams can easily suck back a full gig or more or ram, especially when in a video call. From my understanding, Teams is running essentially like an Electron app (except using an Edge browser packaged). I have no problem with web based apps, but man, some optimization is called for.
- nextos 2y agoI use a decade-old NUC with plenty of RAM as a daily driver. It doesn't struggle with anything except MS Teams. It can churn through Zoom or Meet calls while compiling code. Teams is a bloated mess that makes the fans spin at max RPM. It's crazy I can boot a kernel, with an entire graphics and network stack, X and a terminal in less than 200 MB but then the Teams webapp uses a massive amount of resources and grinds everything else to a halt. Word 365 also becomes incredibly laggy on long documents with tons of comments, whereas Google Docs is just fine. But, apparently, this is also a thing on modern hardware. I guess these days Microsoft has little attention to detail.
- globular-toast 2y agoGoogle maps would only be a net good if the data was available under a free licence. As it is they take data from people that should have gone to a public project like OpenStreetMap.
- arccy 2y ago"take", these people would never have produced any data if gmaps wasn't there...
- hatthew 2y agoAt one point I contributed quite a bit to google maps, because it was the primary map system I was using at the time. Had I been using an OSM-based system, I would have made contributions there instead.
- arccy 2y agoindeed, osm can't paint itself like a victim, it needs good end products to bring in contributors.
- wbl 2y agoI ran into trouble because Open Topo does not report a stream the 7.5" series does. There's serious data quality issues that can make it not work for some applications.
- gray_-_wolf 2y agoMost of the spam I get is from gmail. Maybe they should apply their so effective spam engine to outgoing mail as well...
- crazygringo 2y agoIt's probably not. You can put any domain you want on the "from" address. Just because it says it was from Gmail doesn't mean it actually was, unless it's signed with DKIM etc. I had a domain for a while that people got spam "from" all the time. It had nothing to do with me and there was nothing I could do about it.
- dpifke 2y agoI run mail servers for myself, a couple of side projects, and some friends and family. A double-digit percentage of all spam caught by my filters is from Google's mail servers, not just forged @gmail.com addresses. Of the "too big to block outright" spam senders, behind Twilio Sendgrid and Weebly, Google is currently #3. Amazon is a close #4. None of the top four currently have useful abuse reporting mechanisms... Sendgrid used to be OK, but they no longer seem to take any action. Google doesn't even accept abuse reports, which is ironic because "does not accept or act upon abuse reports" is criteria for being blocked by Google. Most spam from Google is fake invoices and 419 scams. This is trivially filtered on my end, which makes it perplexing Google doesn't choose to do so. I can guarantee that exactly 0% of Gmail users sending out renewal invoices for "N0rton Anti-Virus" are legitimate.
- gray_-_wolf 2y agoI would hope google has DKIM and SPF set.
- csomar 2y agoThe Spam I get from "gmail" and ends up in my spam folder is spoofed. The Spam I get from gmail and ends up in my inbox is from gmail. Spammers will mass-create accounts and mass-sell them to spammers.
- AlienRobot 2y ago"Google is evil, except for all the Google products Google produced" Honestly, if we compare Google to Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Meta, isn't Google the least evil one?
- insane_dreamer 2y agoNo, I’d put them in this descending order of evilness: Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple.
- asdff 2y agoDo people use shared docs often in the workplace? I only used it on like two group projects in school and it probably made things more clunky than if we just wrote our portions and compiled them after. Maybe it works for some workflows but having multiple people editing the same document is chaotic, unless you delegate who does what, at which point there's no point in having it be a shared doc when the responsibilities are delegated.
- mwest217 2y agoAll the time, it is incredibly useful to send a doc for comments, which can be attached to the relevant piece of text. I use shared editing less often, but I find it's especially useful in incident response where there may be multiple investigation workstreams, and the incident commander needs to be able to see all of them.
- asdff 2y agoI’m shocked people are managing incidence response over a google dock… what happened to emailing things to people?
- guappa 2y agoNah google maps shows/hides things with very obscure logic. Like you can ask to find a restaurant and it won't point you to the closer one but to one that is few km away instead.
- thepuppet33r 2y agoI think that's all based on advertising dollars. One of the nice things about Openstreetmap is that it doesn't do that weird behind the scenes manipulation.
- insane_dreamer 2y agoGoogle Maps is a net positive as well
- robertlagrant 2y agoSome more: - Google Search - YouTube (more debateable, but I think it's a marvel) - Google Books - ChromeBooks - Android - Google Calendar - Google Earth - Google Drive - Google Docs - Waze - Android Auto - Google Pay - Kubernetes - Go - VP8 / VP9 I'd rather take all those products than leave them.
- insane_dreamer 2y agook, but Search aside (which is Google's primary product; we were talking about side project), many of these are also-rans; they didn't really change the landscape the way Google Maps (and of course Search). OK, maybe Android, but that wasn't developed by Google. Neither was YouTube (groundbreaking), or Waze (not groundbreaking). The only one I would take from your list would be Kubernetes and Google Earth, and Kubernetes being more of a dev tool would really count as far as impact and usefulness to society (Go would fit there). Google Books _could_ have been great, but Google didn't take care of it. Same with Google Reader.
- hfsh 2y ago>which is Google's primary product Which used to be Google's primary product, way waaaay back when. Their primary product now is advertising, and has been for a very long time.
- robertlagrant 2y agoI don't see why NIH affects anything. They're google products now. And as a further point: do you think Android and YouTube have the same codebases as they did when they were acquired? Of course not.
- codeflo 2y agoI'll reserve judgement on its net effect until the moment they kill it.
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- aleph_minus_one 2y agoSince you are new at HN: what does this have to do with Google Scholar?
- markerz 2y agoI am 100% sure this is a bot to farm link reputation. I have flagged it.
- renewiltord 2y agoGoogle Scholar is fantastic stuff. I am so grateful for it. It’s crazy how easy it is to find papers these days by just going to it. University library search functions are completely useless in comparison.
- elashri 2y agoI did not know about PDF Scholar Readee extension [1]. Unfortunately the reason is that I use Firefox only (and safari iOS) and it is not available there. The AI outlines will be useful and I can think of myself using it. I do not want to comment on number 20. I really wished that I joined CERN 10 years earlier but then it is the mistake of my parents :) [1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/google-scholar-pdf-reader/dahenjhkoodjbpjheillcadbppiidmhp?utm_medium=blog&utm_source=scholar.googleblog.com&utm_campaign=kp&utm_content=top https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/google-scholar-pdf-...
- dctoedt 2y agoI'd not known about "F.D.C. Willard" — the nom de plume of a Michigan State physics professor's Siamese cat, Chester — who was listed as a co-author of a number of the professor's physics papers. More on Chester and his co-author status: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._D._C._Willard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._D._C._Willard
- mananaysiempre 2y ago21. Google Scholar will deny access to you if you (need to) self-host a VPN on a common VPS provider. Being a Google product, it also can’t be special-cased in your routing table. (I genuinely had to retrain myself to use Google Scholar again once I no longer had that need.) 22. Switching on sort by date will impose a filter to papers published within the year, and you cannot do anything about that.
- eesmith 2y ago> 22. Switching on sort by date will impose a filter to papers published within the year, and you cannot do anything about that. !!! And here I thought it's been broken for years, and a sign of decay due to lack of internal support.
- buildbot 2y agoI swear this was working for me until literally today, it was really useful to find older ML papers?!
- mananaysiempre 2y agoThere is filter by date and sort by date. The former works. The latter, when enabled, even adds a banner on top of the page (in large but gray type) that says “Articles added in the last year, sorted by date”, and resets any filter you might have set before.
- MichaelZuo 2y agoWas this change ever logged or noted some way? Or did it just show up one day?
- philipkglass 2y agoIf it ever returned time-sorted results without limit, that was long in the past. It has truncated results to one year for the last several years I have used Scholar.
- svat 2y agoRelated: 2014 article by Steven Levy, titled "The Gentleman Who Made Scholar": https://www.wired.com/2014/10/the-gentleman-who-made-scholar/ https://www.wired.com/2014/10/the-gentleman-who-made-scholar...
- Thrymr 2y ago> Would he want to continue working on Scholar for another ten years? “One always believes there are other opportunities, but the problem is how to pursue them when you are in a place you like and you have been doing really well. I can do problems that seem very interesting me — but the biggest impact I can possible make is helping people who are solving the world’s problems to be more efficient. If I can make the world’s researchers ten percent more efficient, consider the cumulative impact of that. So if I ended up spending the next ten years going this, I think I would be extremely happy.” Has he still been working on it in the 10 years since this article? His name is in the byline of the new blog post, but it's not clear from that how much he's been working on it.
- the-rc 2y ago12-13 years ago, I ran the system that inlined Scholar and other results on the main search result pages. Anurag was still involved, but AFAIR Alex, the other author of the post who also had been there from the start, worked on most code changes. I would guess that things are more or less the same today. (Because it had such limited headcount, Scholar was known to lag behind other services when it came to code/infrastructure migrations.)
- jll29 2y agoThanks for that inside scoop, even if it's a bit dated; I wonder if they read this discussion, perhaps. An important feature request would be a view where only peer-reviewed publications (specifically, not ArXiv and other pre-print archives) are included in the citation counts, and self-citations are also excluded. A way to download all citation sources would also be a great nice-to-have.
- zeroonetwothree 2y agoGoogle Scholar is so good. I started doing research right when it came out and it was amazingly helpful. I can’t imagine how it was done before.
- IshKebab 2y agoThere are alternatives, like Web of Knowledge. You basically need to be in a Uni for that though.
- leephillips 2y agoI would go to the library and pull volumes of Science Citation Index off the shelves. Yes, Google Scholar was a revolution.
- dekhn 2y agoI'd go to the card catalog (index), turn my question into a bag of words (tokenize), fetch all the cards matching each token (posting lists), drop cards which didn't include enough of the tokens (posting list intersection), ordering the cards by the number of tokens they matched (keyword match ranking), filter at some cutoff, and then reorder based on the h-index of the author (page rank). Then I would read each paper in order, following citations in a breadth-first manner. (the above is a joke comparing old school library work to search engines circa 2000; I didn't actually do all those steps. I'd usually just find the most recent review article and read the papers it cited).
- asdff 2y agoI had an old boss who did it in the old analog way. He had a secretary handle his email and transcribing stuff he hand wrote. He had print subscriptions to a couple nature journals, science, and a couple research niche specific journals and he read them basically cover to cover. He'd attend conferences and had many collaborators who would send him papers from their own lab to opine on. I actually respect this style a lot. There is a firehose of papers coming onto google scholar each day. You type in some keyword you get 500 hits. This cut that down substantially for him in a way where he never missed anything big (reading nature and science), kept up with what the field has been doing (reading the more niche specific journals and keeping up with the labs who put out this niche work), and seeing what was coming up in the pipeline from the conferences or what sort of research new grants were requesting. I'm not sure that scholar would have helped much.
- kylebenzle 2y agoI was hoping it would be 20 tips and tricks on how to use the service better not random fun facts about its history :-(
- chromatin 2y ago21. No API
- malshe 2y agoI use Google Scholar daily and it's been a fantastic resource. Google Scholar with Zotero completes my articles search and storage. Btw, Anurag's last name is misspelt under the picture. It reads "Achurya" instead of "Acharya" Edit: They fixed it
- lbeckman314 2y ago> 18. A paw-sitive contribution to Physics. F.D.C Willard (otherwise known as Chester, the Siamese cat) is listed as a co-author on an article entitled: “Two, Three, and Four-Atom Exchange Effects” that explores the magnetic properties of solid helium-3 and how interactions between its atoms influence its behavior at extremely low temperatures. Chester’s starring role came about because his co-author/owner, Jack H. Hetherington wrote the entire paper with the plural “we” instead of a single “I.” --- 'Two-, Three-, and Four-Atom Exchange Effects in bcc 3He' by J. H. Hetherington and F. D. C. Willard [0, 1, 2] [0] https://xkeys.com/media/wysiwyg/smartwave/porto/category/about/jackspages/PRLV35No21.pdf https://xkeys.com/media/wysiwyg/smartwave/porto/category/abo... [1] https://xkeys.com/about/jackspages/fdcwillard.html https://xkeys.com/about/jackspages/fdcwillard.html [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._D._C._Willard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._D._C._Willard
- lr1970 2y agoSir Andre Geim [0], the only person in the world who received both the real Nobel prize in Physics and the Ig Nobel prize co-authored one of his articles [1] with his hamster Tisha. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Geim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Geim [1] https://repository.ubn.ru.nl//bitstream/handle/2066/249681/249681.pdf https://repository.ubn.ru.nl//bitstream/handle/2066/249681/2...
- russellbeattie 2y agoHuh. I tried the "Listen to article" button, because I knew it was going to be generated and was curious to hear how it sounded. Interestingly, it highlighted the words as it read. I haven't seen that before online. Not sure how useful it is (especially for anyone interested in this particular topic), but I thought it was a neat innovation nevertheless.
- gexaha 2y agoThe most fun fact is that it still exists!
- robwwilliams 2y agoOur department uses GScholar as a great research-focused CV generator. Not used formally except that faculty pages have a link to their GS pages.
- wseqyrku 2y agoFor a second I thought this was buzzfeed for some reason.
- GeoAtreides 2y agooh no they remembered google scholar exists it's a great product and I don't trust google at all not to break it or mess with it
- crazygringo 2y agoGoogle employs a lot of people from academia. Scholar is used and loved by a lot of people within Google. It's been around for two decades. I really don't think it's going anywhere.
- dekhn 2y agoReader was used and loved by a LOT of people WITHIN google, but it was shut down (and the leadership that loved it even made arguments in front of the company why it "had to be shut down"). AFAICT Scholar remains because Anurag built up massive cred in the early years (he was a critically important search engineer) with Larry Page and kept his infra costs and headcount really small, while also taking advantage of search infra).
- crazygringo 2y agoIf it matters, they cited declining usage of Reader as a reason for shutting it down. It seems like Scholar has an overall upward trend, although their methodology notes make it hard to compare some periods directly: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F057mg4&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0... I'm basically assuming this is the rate of growth of graduate school, and no competing products have had any real effect?
- dekhn 2y agoReader usage was declining because the application was not being developed. The other reason they mentioned is that it would have required a lot of work to rewrite the app to be consistent with the new user data policies being put into place.
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- afandian 2y agoSome fun Google Scholar history from another perspective. https://youtu.be/DZ2Bgwyx3nU?t=315 https://youtu.be/DZ2Bgwyx3nU?t=315 I recommend you watch the rest of the video, on the subject of open/closed and enclosure of infrastructure.
- teruakohatu 2y agoThe best thing, by a long way, that Google Scholar has achieved is denying Elsevier & co a monopoly on academic search. In most universities here in New Zealand, articles have to be published in a journal indexed by Elsevier's Scopus. Not in a Scopus-indexed journal, it does not count anymore than a reddit comment. This gives Elsevier tremendous power. But in CS/ML/AI most academics and students turn to Google Scholar first when doing searches.
- freefaler 2y agoor turn to sci-hub and annas-arhive :)
- philipkglass 2y agoYou use Google Scholar to find papers you're interested in, then use sci-hub to actually read them.
- jrochkind1 2y ago> 1. The team started with just two of us. My guess for a while has been that it was back to two of them! if that!
- p4bl0 2y agoI wish GScholar wouldn't embrace bibliometrics so much. Sort papers by date (most recent papers first) by default on an author's page rather than by citation count, or at least give author the choice to individually opt-in to sort by date by default.
- random3 2y agoFun fact about Google Scholar: it’s "free", but it’s just another soulless Google product - no clear strategy, no support, and a fragile proprietary dependency in what should be an open ecosystem. This creates inherent risks for the academic community. We need the equivalent of arXiv for Google Scholar
- afandian 2y agoThe Invest in Open site has a good directory of open tools. https://infrafinder.investinopen.org/solutions https://infrafinder.investinopen.org/solutions
- kergonath 2y agoYes. On one hand I’d like Google to improve things a bit. There are some rough edges, which is a shame because it indexes some things that are not in Scopus or Web of Knowledge, like theses and preprint repositories. On the other hand I worry that some manager somewhere would kill it if they realised that it is still around.
- random3 2y agoEvery 1-2 months when Chrome updates I get banned by their throttling mechanism because I their extension makes too many requests and they see "unusual traffic" It can take 1-2 weeks to go away and be able to use it. There's no way to get in contact with anyone. Tried the Chrome extension email, support forums. It's a good reality check. There's no real support behind it and it can go away just like Google Reader did. I think the motivations behind it are laudable, but they should not be the answer to the actual problem.
- kergonath 2y agoI agree entirely.
- griomnib 2y agoI’m fairly sure they only exist because Larry/Sergei might give half a fuck if they killed it outright, and it has a small enough team that the cost savings for killing aren’t enough for Ruth to want to make that argument.
- theanonymousone 2y agoThe post uses the expression "delve into" :-/
- sourcepluck 2y agoIs this a jokey reference to that time Paul Graham upset large amounts of Nigerians on Twitter? Or, rather, genuine concern at the thought that the article may have been generated by chatbots?
- trash_cat 2y agoIt´s because Taylor Swift´s lates album uses a lot of ´delve´.
- Der_Einzige 2y agoLLMs linguistically colonized humans already so now humans use LLM slop in their day-to-day verbal communications. Unironically the plot of MGS5 the Phantom Pain literally happened IRL. Skullface would be proud!
- kome 2y agolol, so what?
- pkoird 2y agoUnpopular opinion but I really liked Microsoft Academic instead until they canned it, sadly.
- photochemsyn 2y agoI've been using Google Scholar for a long time, but I'm finding ChatGPT search with well-crafted prompts gets more focused and relevant results than a complex keyword search on GS does. However it's often still easier to find a link to the pdf version of the paper using GS, but then scihub is still an option and can work when all else fails.
- chris_wot 2y agoHow long till they kill it?
- looneysquash 2y agoOh good, it's just a celebration and not an announcement that they're killing it.
- rnewme 2y agoTime goes by fast. It's interesting to think how authors son is now 20 as well. Another interesting thing is little popup form at the end of post asking me if my opinion of Google changed for the better after reading the post. I mean maybe a bit, b the form definitely knocked the score back down.
- agnishom 2y agoGoogle Scholar is extremely valuable to the academic community. I am afraid that Google will decide to scrap it someday, and we will be left with a number of inferior alternatives.
- domoritz 2y agoSemantic scholar is pretty good so I keep using it more and more.
- idunnoman1222 2y agoLike annas archive?
- jonas21 2y agoGoogle employs thousands of researchers who would be less productive (and upset) if they scrapped it. That alone is probably enough to make it worthwhile to keep it going, at least until a good alternative emerges.
- elAhmo 2y agoGiven that they have killed products with millions of users, including a lot of paying users, relying on this is optimistic. Google doesn't seem to care about major inconvenience they cause, like with the Google Domains sale Squarespace.
- leemee 2y agoI think the point was that Google is _sometimes_ willing to support projects if it helps their employees do their job, which might be the case here.
- agnishom 2y agoWell, given how Google behaves I am not sure my perception of rationality aligns with their perception of rationality
- jillesvangurp 2y ago
- 1propionyl 2y agoA reminder to everyone: if you want a "legal" copy of a paper you can always just try emailing one of the first authors. They will 99.99% send you back a PDF.
- breck 2y ago[dead]
- dredmorbius 2y agoDead authors don't. The friction is tremendously higher than on-demand downloadable options: LibGen, SciHub, ZLibrary, Anna's Archive, or even sources such as ArXiv, SocArXiv, SSRN, which are far more fragmentary and limited.
- ultimoo 2y ago“Now with AI outlines, you can quickly grasp the main points or delve into specific details that pique your interest” is this a nod to pg’s delve blowup on twitter?
- fforflo 2y agoHaha,that, or it's a validation of the blowup.
- MollyRealized 2y agoThe availability of case law has been a massive bonus.
- consf 2y ago[dead]
- codeflo 2y agoPushing a half-abandoned but widely beloved project into the visibility of the bean counters at Google with a birthday announcement like that is a dangerous game. Best of luck.
- uecker 2y agoSadly, this is a very valid concern.
- llm_trw 2y agoGoogle is a denger to the world, not because it's a monopoly but because it makes wonderful tools that are better than anything else available at the time. Everything else goes bust. Then google shutters tool and we're left worse off than if they did nothing.
- 2dvisio 2y ago20 years and still no API. In my past as an academic I've tried several times to build systems to depend on Scholar and was always taken aback by the lack of an API. I get it was not to be swallowed whole by other publishers etc, but that has reduced the potential of the product.
- PeterStuer 2y agoI love it when I receive a scolar mail informing that there is a new citation of a 20+ year old long forgotten paper.
- foxbee 2y agoI found the post interestingly personable, something that I don't often find with Google. I've used Google Scholar for many years, before I used Elsevier and it was a gamechanger.
- QuantumG 2y agoCiteSeer we barely knew you.
- esafak 2y agoI'm surprised there are so few comments about it. It had more features than Google Scholar.
- niggaman62420 2y ago[dead]
- cryptozeus 2y agoSlightly unrelated but I also enjoyed google's magazines section https://books.google.com/books/magazines/language/en https://books.google.com/books/magazines/language/en
- guwop 2y agofor people upset with google scholars lack of an API, check out openalex! awesome project. but crazy to think how much net positive google scholar has provided for the world..