Microsoft Academic Search vs. Google Scholar

[Sloan, Bernie]

Microsoft is unveiling their "Academic Search" product, which looks to
be a competitor to Google Scholar, which some people compare to Web of
Science, CiteSeer, etc.

Just interested to see if anyone has any early comments...

>From today's online Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription
required):

Carlson, Scott. Challenging Google, Microsoft Unveils a Search Tool for
Online Scholarly Articles. Today's News. Chronicle of Higher Education.
April 12, 2005. (Subscription required).
http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/04/2006041201t.htm

Also:

Lombardi, Candace. Microsoft reveals answer to Google Scholar. CNET
News. April 12, 2006.
http://tinyurl.com/ghrjd

And:

Sherman, Chris. Microsoft Launches Windows Live Academic Search. Search
Engine Watch. April 12, 2006.
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3598376

Bernie Sloan
Senior Information Systems Consultant
Consortium of Academic & Research Libraries in Illinois
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Champaign, IL  61820-5752

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E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu