Google Scholar. It was just a matter of time before Google got in this business. Now the question is: how is ISI Research (Thomson) taking it? It makes me wonder. What if journal publishers could submit articles to Google like book publishers can for print.google.com. Google indexes the books but protects the content from perusing eyes. There's nothing to stop Google from doing the same for scientific journal articles. It not only indexes the text in the articles, but can easily index the cited article list in each paper to develop a web of research similar to that offered by ISI -- ooh, it's scary what this could mean to ISI. How much resistance are we going to see from ISI -- i.e how much money are they going to pay lawyers, lobbyists, and media to tout the evils of Google? How much willingness is there from Google to forge ahead to produce a better competing product? I'm excited to see.
Posted by johnvu at November 18, 2004 02:08 PM