Google becomes Scholar

Google today release beta version of Scholar Search.

Google says, "We recognize the debt we owe to all those in academia whose work has made Google itself a reality and we hope to make Google Scholar as useful to this community as possible. We believe everyone should have a chance to stand on the shoulders of giants."

Even without scholar search, I use Google search alot for any publication. So, I think the seach results will be more refined now. When you do a scholar search, the results list the authors name, publication and the year of publication. So, I think this is the major difference on how the search result is rendered.