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[Elise George]

Google Scholar searches for scientific articles instead of web pages
Imagine searching the Internet and being able to restrict your results 
to academic texts.
Today Google launched a free search engine that aims to do just that. 
Google Scholar
searches only journal articles, theses, books, preprints, and technical 
reports across
any area of research. In a search for the phrase "human genome", for 
example, a
normal Google web search throws back 450,000 or so hits, with genome 
centres and
databases and other websites ranked top. In contrast, Google Scholar 
returns just
113,000 hits, and all the top-ranked items are not websites but seminal 
papers on the
subject. In fact, the number one hit is the landmark article "Initial 
sequencing and
analysis of the human genome"1 published in Nature in 2001. A test 
version of the
search engine is available at http://scholar.google.com 
<http://scholar.google.com/>
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