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By Doug Payne
Microsoft launches Google Scholar rival
Experts welcome the new entry into academic publishing, but question =
some of its potential benefits
[Published 25th April 2006 06:05 PM GMT]
Microsoft has entered the academic search field, launching this month a =
beta version of a tool called Windows Live Academic Search, which will =
index peer-reviewed subscription content from different publishers. =
Experts generally welcomed the new product, which rivals Google Scholar, =
but suggested it could pose problems for librarians and commercial =
vendors.=20
"The new tool "is a bona fide competitor to Google scholar," Dean =
Giustini, a Biomedical Branch Librarian at the University of British =
Columbia who blogs about Google Scholar, told The Scientist in an Email. =
Free to use, the Microsoft product is targeted to scientists and =
academic researchers wanting to find scholarly literature across broad =
areas of research. It's currently available only in English, and only in =
certain countries, including the US, UK, and Germany. Thirumalai =
Anandanpillai, of MSN's Search Product Planning group, said that =
additional markets will be added this year, and content will be added =
throughout the beta period.=20
The searches will cover content from a range of publishers, including =
the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Blackwell =
Publishing, Elsevier, Nature Publishing Group, the British Library, and =
John Wiley & Sons Inc. "Our goal is to add content from more publishers =
on an ongoing basis," said Anandanpillai. At least initially, Microsoft, =
which partnered with the industry association CrossRef, is not using =
citation count as a factor in determining relevance. "We utilize =
Microsoft's Search algorithms to do the relevance ranking [although] we =
have not ruled out using citation-based ranking in the future," =
Anandanpillai told The Scientist.=20
Open access publisher BioMed Central welcomed the new tool, as it did =
Google Scholar, which also indexes open access material. "The more the =
merrier," said Mathew Cockerill at BMC, a sister company of The =
Scientist. "One of the very positive things about the Internet is the =
extent to which it stimulates competition."=20
Anandanpillai added that the Windows program offers better sorting =
options than Google Scholar, allowing users to sort the search results =
by author, date of publication, conference in which the paper was =
presented, and the journal in which it was published. Academic Search =
also offers a feature that allows users to automatically derive =
citations to a paper that appears on the search results page.
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Full Text at TheScientist
http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/23346/
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Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com/
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Windows Live Academic Search=20
http://academic.live.com/
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<DIV>[Published 25th April 2006 06:05 PM GMT]</DIV>
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<DIV>Microsoft has entered the academic search field, launching this =
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beta version of a tool called Windows Live Academic Search, which will =
index=20
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<DIV>Free to use, the Microsoft product is targeted to scientists and =
academic=20
researchers wanting to find scholarly literature across broad areas of =
research.=20
It's currently available only in English, and only in certain countries, =
including the US, UK, and Germany. Thirumalai Anandanpillai, of MSN's =
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Product Planning group, said that additional markets will be added this =
year,=20
and content will be added throughout the beta period. </DIV>
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including the=20
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Publishing,=20
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said Anandanpillai. At least initially, Microsoft, which partnered with =
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Google Scholar, which also indexes open access material. "The more the =
merrier,"=20
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very positive things about the Internet is the extent to which it =
stimulates=20
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author, date=20
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journal in=20
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25 Apr 2006 07:33:19 PM |
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Robert Karl Stonjek wrote:
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Am I the only one amused by the degree of which microsoft is showing
itself to be a follower rather than a leader?
Innovation my *****.
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| User: "Robert Karl Stonjek" |
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26 Apr 2006 06:02:02 PM |
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"Eric Gisse" <jowr.pi@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1146011599.821747.17450@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
Robert Karl Stonjek wrote:
[snip]
Am I the only one amused by the degree of which microsoft is showing
itself to be a follower rather than a leader?
Innovation my *****.
Let's not moan too much - remember, it's three.
Sorry, I meant 'free' (was I thinking of Yahoo!s belated effort in advance?)
Robert
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| User: "Bill Hobba" |
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| Title: Re: Article: Microsoft launches Google Scholar rival |
25 Apr 2006 09:48:56 PM |
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"Eric Gisse" <jowr.pi@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1146011599.821747.17450@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
Robert Karl Stonjek wrote:
[snip]
Am I the only one amused by the degree of which microsoft is showing
itself to be a follower rather than a leader?
Errrrrrrr - No.
Innovation my *****.
When you are the biggest a viable strategy is to wait until your competition
proves something then flog it - hell look what Microsoft did to Netscape.
Problem is they can still come a cropper - remember Ford - any color you
like as long as it is black - misread the market, leave it too late, and you
are down the gurgler. It may slowly be happening with Open Source
software - but then again there is no money in that for Microsoft to take it
up. In time it in fact may kill them.
Thanks
Bill
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| User: "Gregory L. Hansen" |
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| Title: Re: Article: Microsoft launches Google Scholar rival |
25 Apr 2006 10:09:17 PM |
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In article <1146011599.821747.17450@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
Eric Gisse <jowr.pi@gmail.com> wrote:
Robert Karl Stonjek wrote:
[snip]
Am I the only one amused by the degree of which microsoft is showing
itself to be a follower rather than a leader?
Innovation my *****.
Let me haul up a quote from my list.
"No other major companies were working on [computer-controlled homes], and
that was exactly the problem. Microsoft does best when it has a
successful competitor it can copy and then crush." -- Marlin Eller,
"Barbarians Led by Bill Gates", 1998
--
"Then they placed the ark of the Lord on the cart; along with the box
containing the golden mice and the images of the hemorrhoids."
-- 1 Samuel 6:11
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