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ben_w on Feb 15, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Go...

I’ve seen academics upset that Google insisted on changing their search term from “adsorb” to “absorb”. Apparently Google Scholar (?) couldn’t be forced the way Google.com could be.

pedrocx486 on Feb 15, 2019 [–]

I don't get the "(?)" you made, but yes, it's a thing:

https://scholar.google.com/

ben_w on Feb 15, 2019 | [–]

The “(?)” is because I’m only 85% sure that was the Google product they were unhappy about.

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