Finding information on the free World Wide Web: A Specialty Meta-search Engine for the Academic Community

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Yaffa Aharoni, Ariel J. Frank and Snunith Shoham: Finding information on the free World Wide Web: A Specialty Meta-search Engine for the Academic Community, First Monday December 14, 2005

I'm not surprised to see the proposal outlined in this paper. For academics, Google searches result in many (sometimes millions) of irrelevant results. And it doesn't search the 'deep web' of archived academic papers. Academic searches, meanwhile, are typically restricted to a particular site, such as, say, CiteSeer or PubMed, and these searches are too narrow. So the authors propose AcadeME, a meta-search engine for academic resources. More...