"Robert Karl Stonjek"  wrote in
news:cnu0rv$2t29$1{at}darwin.ediacara.org: 

> 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. 

Ladies and gentlemen, please: a round of applause for our very own RKS, who 
has once again brought a valuable resource to our attention. Let's hope the 
search engine proves popular enough for Google to make it permanent. And  
keep up the good work Robert!

Yours,

Bill Morse
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