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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: 0.2s | source
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random3 ◴[18 Nov 24 22:08 UTC] No.42177658[source]▶
Fun fact about Google Scholar: it’s "free", but it’s just another soulless Google product - no clear strategy, no support, and a fragile proprietary dependency in what should be an open ecosystem. This creates inherent risks for the academic community. We need the equivalent of arXiv for Google Scholar
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1. consf ◴[19 Nov 24 07:11 UTC] No.42180759[source]▶
As history has shown with other Google projects, there's always the potential for features to be deprioritized