Roy Tennant on Google and Google Scholar

Jay writes “Roy Tennant in Google, the Naked Emperor, points out, “The Scholar search service was announced at the end of last year to wide acclaim. What it attempts to do is to crawl (using the standard Google infrastructure) and index content from academic and scholarly publishers. Although Google has agreements with many publishers, it has no agreement with some significant ones, including Elsevier. Scholar’s crawl of content, however, can lag months behind its appearance on the original site.”

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Google, the Naked Emperor