Google announced his free beta service, Google Scholar, which allows users to search for scholarly literature like peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports, the Mountain View, California, company said. Google, this information industry's giant, made great strides on its technologies and applicaton once more. Will he stand on the scholar giants' shoulders?
As far as I knew, the related work has been performed by Citeseer for many years. And the works is very successful. It seems that the technologies which they applied are very similar (or maybe exactly same, not sure). Do they have any connections each other? But what attracted me most is how Google started to do things like Google Scholar, and what technologies they applied, finally what the ultimate goals they are ready to achieve based on the current technologies.
Here, I am not ready to enkindle the arguments war on two organizations. Whatever Google Scholar or Citeseer, if they really can 'stand' on the scholar giants' shoulders to provide services to the running researchers and scientists, it is the real to achieve those giants' beautiful dreams.
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