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Before the Swiss watchmaker Jean François Ruchonnet designed the Monaco V4 concept watch, he lifted the hood of his Maserati, gazed at the engine and thought about the belts. Then he decided to create a similar belt system in miniature to replace the interlocking gears in mechanical watches. Each...
Google last week released “Google Scholar,†a search engine that allows users to search millions of papers, theses and other academic resources, with the same relevance ranking technology that made the original search engine so popular.
In addition to retrieving resources on the web, the search engine also finds offline resources like books and journals.
Despite criticism, the search engine already has followers at Harvard.
Repeated calls to Google were not returned yesterday. According to a press release, the search engine will remain in the “beta†testing stage until the company has determined its usefulness and whether it should remain among Google’s array of services.