Andreas wrote:

> There's several new search engines, based on citation ranking.
>
> Citation ranking is common in academics. Chemical and physics articles are
> ranked by the number of citations that the article has been able
> to provoke.
> A significant article will be often cited. A trivial article will not
> generate many citation.
>
> The following search engines are based on this idea:
>
> http://www.google.com
>

Great googly moogly, this one's a keeper. Interesting concept (the citation
ranking thing)...I found that backtracking into the citations gave me quite
relevant stuff for the few searches I tested.

BTW, the url you gave above just gave me a link to:

http://google.stanford.edu/

which is where the meat is.

Jack

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