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20 years of Google Scholar

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412 points thepuppet33r | 1 comments | 18 Nov 24 18:01 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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 It feels outdated on many fronts now, but it was a pioneer).
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roflmaostc ◴[18 Nov 24 19:08 UTC] No.42175773[source]▶
anti-spam is only an issue if people dump their email anywhere. I usually register my mail on webpages as first.last+webpage@mail.com and once they would spam this mail, it gets blacklisted.

I literally get only 1-3 real spam mails per month without any filter.

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dripton ◴[18 Nov 24 19:16 UTC] No.42175853[source]▶
Words great, until a page rejects email with a '+' in it.
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AshamedCaptain ◴[18 Nov 24 19:39 UTC] No.42176089[source]▶
Or just knows about this Gmail trick (it's been 20 years already) and sends spam to your real mailbox.

Actually, I am surprised _any_ spammy website these days would even honor the part after the +, and not just directly send to the real mailbox name.

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1. thechao ◴[18 Nov 24 21:28 UTC] No.42177255[source]▶
I used to require a "+..." on all emails. Any email that didn't have the "+..." was sent to Spam automagically. My family were whitelisted. I gave up, because too many websites (early on) refused to take the "+..." marker, so I ended up losing too much to Spam. It's easier to just let Google sort it out.