09/08/2008

Advice for Google Scholar

Maybe I shouldn't give free advice to one of the globe's richest companies, but I will nonetheless. You could also call it a request.

In the advanced search, you can select whether you want to look for your search terms in the full text of the articles or only in the titles. The former will usually be to wide, the latter too narrow. Could we please have a function that lets you look for your terms in the abstracts? I don't see how this should be hard to implement. Most articles have separate abstract pages; in the case of working papers, you could just look within the first two pages or so.

Thank you.

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