Comments on: Related articles in Google Scholar

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:31:03 +0000

Projecting graphics on unusual displays!
Product of the future? Not sure!
If we look at movies like The Matrix, we can all see what the future can hold. How about a projector pen!

By: raheel

raheel — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:37:32 +0000

If you are trust Google more than your Doctor! then its time to change your Doctor.

By: FEAnoR

FEAnoR — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:26:21 +0000

LOL, private krankenversicherung
I bet you saw numberless links with this anchor text

By: Michael Martinez

Michael Martinez — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:08:26 +0000

Matt, assuming the Google Scholar algorithm hasn’t been modified to favor fee-based sites, is it fair to assume there may be a shift in linking patterns among the academic sites? Is there a trend toward source monetization that is being actively developed in the academic community?

I suppose that’s a bit out of your venue, but it’s frustrating to look for papers through Google Scholar right now as all the results I’ve encountered lead back to the fee-based access portals. ACS tends to dominate a lot of searches.

Some sort of optional weighting or filtering would be advantageous for surfers.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:13:23 +0000

Limestone, gotta mix it up every so often.

Don’t you mean brimstone?

By: german

german — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:23:50 +0000

I am pretty successful in finding papers in other languages but yet through another method.

Say I look for X from english into german. Then I look first at the X document in english, look for related general words in english.
I then translate in my mind the easy related words in German and then enter the word X I want in English + the translation of the related words in german in google with “pages in german” or better”pages from germany”.
I then get most of the time bilingual documents which help me to find more words in german to refine my search only in german.

The problem with google.com is that you can’t find “pages in english” or “pages from the us” (it is taken that most of the time people using google.com are the surfer from the us. You then get a mixture of crap in many languages that doesn’t help). And no, I am not going to enter any refine parameter because I have enough cookies on my computer already.

Next time one find bilingual search terms on their logs, one may not think that we are crazy. Google is the best dictionnary for me and I don’t need google scholar.

By: David

David — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 06:21:55 +0000

Kind of off-topic but I think this is quite interesting. Google states that it has eliminated the common words “of the” from the search, but all seven results that are shown have the exact text “office of the future”. Is Google not really ignoring those words after all?

By: Ken Barbalace

Ken Barbalace — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 03:33:43 +0000

Matt,

I noticed that Google Scholar is not obeying the ROBOTS NOARCHIVE meta instruction and is displaying cached versions of pages that contain this instruction even though the main Google search does not display a cached version of said pages.

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:23:15 +0000

Michael, I believe that if we can find an open source for a paper, we point to that. And with many schools, if your IP address matches the school or library, we can make the paper accessible that way too. Limestone, gotta mix it up every so often.

By: Aaron Pratt

Aaron Pratt — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:58:52 +0000

Joseph Hunkins – Yeah that, VERY cool stuff to dream about. Hey, your entire WordPress blog uses the nofollow tag, is that your doing or is it WordPress.com?

Back to Scholar, I use it to find information on stuff from time to time and I am surely no student and also have a lot of catching up to do.

Here are some common errors in english found via Scholar. This will help to write a better copy hehe, so yeah Scholar has it’s uses.

Here is one found in Google Scholar for the phrase “word usage” which you guys might want to remove, looks like someone over monetized, doh!