[Sigia-l] Google Scholar

[Manu Sharma]

>    http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/
>
> Google Scholar seems to be a competitor to this. Some diffs
>
>   - It doesn't offer the same feature set as Citeseer (yet).
>
>   - I don't know how the sizes compare. Citeseer has been around
>     longer, but Google has more resources
>
>   - Google Scholar will be more reliable and accessible. Citeseer
>     is occassionally unavailable because too many people are using it
>
>   - Google has a branding edge, as mentioned

All this. But the biggest difference that's instantly apparent is that
Google Scholar is amazingly fast. About ten times faster than CiteSeer
from where I use it. On CS, I get errors such as "service temporarily
unavailable", "down for repairs" or "too many users" all too often.

Google results on the other hand take less than two seconds to appear.

Manu.
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