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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: 0.414s | 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 It feels outdated on many fronts now, but it was a pioneer).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. guappa ◴[19 Nov 24 20:11 UTC] No.42187586[source]▶
Nah google maps shows/hides things with very obscure logic.

Like you can ask to find a restaurant and it won't point you to the closer one but to one that is few km away instead.

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2. thepuppet33r ◴[20 Nov 24 09:55 UTC] No.42192312[source]▶
I think that's all based on advertising dollars.

One of the nice things about Openstreetmap is that it doesn't do that weird behind the scenes manipulation.