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20 years of Google Scholar

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412 points thepuppet33r | 2 comments | 18 Nov 24 18:01 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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svat ◴[18 Nov 24 18:55 UTC] No.42175640[source]▶
Related: 2014 article by Steven Levy, titled "The Gentleman Who Made Scholar": https://www.wired.com/2014/10/the-gentleman-who-made-scholar...
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Thrymr ◴[18 Nov 24 19:52 UTC] No.42176203[source]▶
> Would he want to continue working on Scholar for another ten years? “One always believes there are other opportunities, but the problem is how to pursue them when you are in a place you like and you have been doing really well. I can do problems that seem very interesting me — but the biggest impact I can possible make is helping people who are solving the world’s problems to be more efficient. If I can make the world’s researchers ten percent more efficient, consider the cumulative impact of that. So if I ended up spending the next ten years going this, I think I would be extremely happy.”

Has he still been working on it in the 10 years since this article? His name is in the byline of the new blog post, but it's not clear from that how much he's been working on it.

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1. the-rc ◴[18 Nov 24 20:20 UTC] No.42176475[source]▶
12-13 years ago, I ran the system that inlined Scholar and other results on the main search result pages. Anurag was still involved, but AFAIR Alex, the other author of the post who also had been there from the start, worked on most code changes. I would guess that things are more or less the same today. (Because it had such limited headcount, Scholar was known to lag behind other services when it came to code/infrastructure migrations.)
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2. jll29 ◴[18 Nov 24 20:55 UTC] No.42176912[source]▶
Thanks for that inside scoop, even if it's a bit dated; I wonder if they read this discussion, perhaps.

An important feature request would be a view where only peer-reviewed publications (specifically, not ArXiv and other pre-print archives) are included in the citation counts, and self-citations are also excluded.

A way to download all citation sources would also be a great nice-to-have.