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November 20, 2004
Research online?
I must've been making the point in email, not on my blog. One thing people have been yammering about as a recent big trend is how much easier it's becoming to access information. Of course saying, "I read it on the web," seems equivalent to saying, "And now for something certifiably crackpot."
Perhaps that's could be less true. At any rate, Google seems to want to help you search only in scholarly works.
I'm not sure what a good smoke test is, but you can turn things up. For example, a search for author:chomsky context-free languages, brings back some hits quoting him on "The algebraic theory of context-free languages."
It doesn't bring back ads.
Posted by Mark at November 20, 2004 02:42 PM