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As we mentioned before, Google has teamed up with several institutions to provide search capabilities through their DSpace repositories.
Some people have said that this may not be a good idea. The author, however, may be missing the point. Although the concern over the current usefulness of the scope of the searchable material is perhaps valid, Google's service is more of a beta test than functional software.
I personally like the ability to restrict my searches and filter the results from the outset. Google already allows people to restrict results to specific domains, so why not the ability to restrict results based on more abstract filters? I agree with the author that this policy "sounds good," but I think Google should be given more leeway as the technology develops and DSpace (and other institutional repositories) become more common.
Posted by Jason Simms at April 22, 2004 10:29 PM | Links to this postNah, did not miss that point. I was complaining about the numbers used in the press releases about the "teaming up" of Google and DSpace. They mentioned an average of 1000 papers per archive and that simply is wrong. There is nothing wrong at all with the Google Dspace partnership, but there is something wrong with press releases that don't get their numbers straight.
Posted by: Henk Ellermann at April 23, 2004 09:49 AM