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20 years of Google Scholar

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412 points thepuppet33r | 5 comments | 18 Nov 24 18:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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thepuppet33r ◴[18 Nov 24 18:01 UTC] No.42175024[source]▶
Yes, Google deserves to be distrusted and avoided as a whole, but Google Scholar is a genuinely net good for humanity.
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dumpHero2 ◴[18 Nov 24 19:00 UTC] No.42175704[source]▶
I have similar feeing for Gmail (it's effective anti spam engine), google maps and google docs (which pioneered shared docs. It feels outdated on many fronts now, but it was a pioneer).
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1. globular-toast ◴[18 Nov 24 21:17 UTC] No.42177151[source]▶
Google maps would only be a net good if the data was available under a free licence. As it is they take data from people that should have gone to a public project like OpenStreetMap.
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2. arccy ◴[18 Nov 24 21:49 UTC] No.42177478[source]▶
"take", these people would never have produced any data if gmaps wasn't there...
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3. hatthew ◴[18 Nov 24 22:01 UTC] No.42177599[source]▶
At one point I contributed quite a bit to google maps, because it was the primary map system I was using at the time. Had I been using an OSM-based system, I would have made contributions there instead.
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4. arccy ◴[18 Nov 24 22:25 UTC] No.42177773{3}[source]▶
indeed, osm can't paint itself like a victim, it needs good end products to bring in contributors.
5. wbl ◴[18 Nov 24 23:45 UTC] No.42178530[source]▶
I ran into trouble because Open Topo does not report a stream the 7.5" series does. There's serious data quality issues that can make it not work for some applications.