Google, the online-search company that promises to "organize the world's information". Google was brought to life in September 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Since then has the company expanded to more than 4,000 employees worldwide.
According to Bell (2004), “Google has become the symbol of competition to the academic library”.
In November 2004 was the "Google Scholar" launched. Neuhaus et al. (2006) found that Google Scholar's current strengths is coverage of science and medical databases, open access databases, and single publisher databases. Current weaknesses include lack of coverage of social science and humanities databases and an English language bias.
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Google: http://www.google.com/
Google scholar: http://scholar.google.com/advanced_scholar_search
Google Scholar. 2005. About Google Scholar. http://www.scholar.google.com/scholar/about.html
See also: Citation Indexing (Core Concepts in LIS); Internet (Core Concepts in LIS);
Birger Hjørland
Last edited: 08-06-2007