Researchers Using Google Scholar Less
Dean Giustini has reported on a TechCrunch.com article that while Google's Google Web Search traffic increased by 20%, Google Scholar's traffic decreased by 32%.
According to Dean, Google has "squandered" away opportunities to make it more powerful tool. Scholar is not as useful and many web researchers are going back to regular Google for "indiscriminate scholarly trawling of the web."
He believes unless Google changes their ways, Scholar will eventually go the way of the dodo bird.
posted by The Krafty Librarian @ 12:46 PM
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IT IS NOT SURPRISING. IT HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED SINCE SOMETIME IN NOVEMBER. IF THE INFORMATION IS NOT FRESH WHO IS GOING TO CONSULT IT? NEW ARTICLES ARE POSTED ON A DAILY BASIS - IF IT IS TO BE TRULY USEFUL IT SHOULD BE UPDATED ON THAT SAME BASIS. THERE IS NO WAY TO GET A COMMENTARY DIRECTLY TO GOOGLE (OR IF THERE IS IT IS WELL HIDDEN), WHICH IN ITSELF IS A DEFICIENCY, SO MAYBE THEY WILL DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT IF THEY SEE IT IN THE BLOGSHPERE. THEY GET THINGS OUT QUICKLY BUT THEIR FOLLOW THROUGH COULD BE VERY MUCH IMPROVED - GOOGLE DOCUMENTS IS AN EXAMPLE, AS IT STANDS IT IS NO ALTERNATIVE TO OFFICE, BY ANY MEANS, WISH IT WERE.
PETER U.
Caps lock anyone????? not cool, please try again :)
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