Technically Speaking

The Google Scholar site is a new search tool Google released yesterday. The tool’s purpose is to help search academic research filed within Google’s massive index. Through specialized algorithms this is the first attempt to separate out specific content in Google’s system. If the beta site is successful, Google could start offering custom search sites on specified topics in the very near future.

Although Google already had been indexing the reams of academic research online, the company hadn’t been able to separate the scholarly content from commercial Web sites.

By focusing on the citations contained in academic papers, Google also engineered its new system to provide a list of potentially helpful material available at libraries and other offline sources.

The scholarly search effort continues Google’s effort to probe even deeper into content available online and offline. Last month, Google expanded a program that invites publishers to scan their books into the search engine’s index, enabling people to peek at the contents online before deciding whether to buy a copy.

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