Scientists get their own Google
Declan Butler
New search engine ranks papers by importance, and finds the free versions.

Imagine searching the Internet and being able to restrict your results to
academic texts. Today Google launched a free search engine that aims to do
just that. Google Scholar searches only journal articles, theses, books,
preprints, and technical reports across any area of research.

A test version of the search engine is available at
http://scholar.google.com, so you can try it out. In a search for the phrase
"human genome", for example, a normal Google web search throws back 450,000
or so hits, with genome centres and databases and other websites ranked top.

In contrast, Google Scholar returns just 113,000 hits, and all the
top-ranked items are not websites but seminal papers on the subject. In
fact, the number one hit is the landmark article "Initial sequencing and
analysis of the human genome"1 published in Nature in 2001.

Full Text at Nature
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041115/full/041115-13.html

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