Designing Learning Technology

Mon, 12 Apr 2004

Google to Search Academic Archives
When Google started indexing PDF files as well as web pages, its ability to find academic papers went up significantly. But the signal to noise ratio was still really high. I've found that if I'm looking for a specific paper and know a short phrase or quote from that paper, I can find it very fast, but using Google for more general lit searches did not work well. Now comes news that Google is working with universities to provide a means to search custom archives of scholarly materials. That's exciting!

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