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Re: Google Scholar, was How to pay $47 for a copy of RFC 793

Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> Tue, 10 May 2011 18:22 UTC

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Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 20:22:04 +0200
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Subject: Re: Google Scholar, was How to pay $47 for a copy of RFC 793
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On 05/10/11 18:14, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> On May 10, 2011, at 8:41 AM, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
>
>> For some reason, scholar has indexed 151 docs from tools.ietf.org and then stopped.
>
> If only there was someone who worked at Google on this list who could send an internal message to get this rectified.... :-)
 From what I could tell from the instructions, Scholar is using some 
heuristics to figure out that "this is a paper" and "this is not a 
paper". The highest one on the list was a 3-slide presentation that 
really didn't say very much - I think this is one where heuristics had 
failed.

I think someone at the site could help them a lot more.

> --Paul Hoffman
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