First Google, now Grokker? For the past year, students at Stanford University have been testing a program that sorts search results from a number of sources, including many academic databases that aren’t available on the public Internet. Grokker’s creators hope that the software catches on with students working on term papers—but the service may have to fight for business with Google Scholar, the popular search engine’s digitization project for research databases. (San Jose Business Journal)
For more on Google Scholar, see an article from The Chronicle by Jeffrey R. Young.
