Don't know if anyone has seen this yet, but apparently Google has started a new 'add-on', I guess you would say, to, well, Google. It's suppose to separate "Scholarly" texts, and what have you from the mainstream commercial sites that Google is known for picking up first in its searches.
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Although Google already had been indexing the reams of academic research online, the company hadn't been able to separate the scholarly content from commercial Web sites.
By focusing on the citations contained in academic papers, Google also engineered its new system to provide a list of potentially helpful material available at libraries and other offline sources.
The scholarly search effort continues Google's effort to probe even deeper into content available online and offline. Last month, Google expanded a program that invites publishers to scan their books into the search engine's index, enabling people to peek at the contents online before deciding whether to buy a copy.
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If you want to read the full jobbie, go
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6520633/
It seems like an interesting concept, and I've been testing it out a little bit, but it seems to pick up very abstract results, especially if you're search scientific stuff, like, the planet Jupiter. :P But it does say it's a beta.
http://scholar.google.com