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ACS Sues Google Over Use of 'Scholar'

Posted by timothy on from the because-scholarship-is-all-about-trademarks dept.

headisdead writes "John Batelle is noting that 'The American Chemical Society yesterday filed a complaint against Google, claiming the new Google Scholar infringes on its own product, called SciFinder Scholar.' Fairly typical subscription vs. free dispute, but with intellectual property issues thrown in for good measure."

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  1. Re:Scholar = a common word, an not even the full n by kfg · · Score: 3, Informative

    Next, Coca-Cola will sue Pepsi Cola over the use of the word Cola.

    They can't. They already did, and settled. Previous to that suit Coca-Cola made dozens of competing products either change their name or put them out of business.

    KFG

  2. SciFinder by Bester · · Score: 5, Informative

    As a user of SciFinder Scholar I really don't think that ACS should be trying to draw a comparison between their product and google's scholar.

    SciFinder is terrible. The UI is non-consistent with the standard windows suite, cf to google's wonderful UI. SciFinder is also ugly as a dog (a pug at that).
    It's slow as a dog, cf to google's speed.
    Tell it to save to results and all you get is unprintable ascii characters.
    Performing a search is painful task with poor boolean support.

    On the whole scifinder is poor product that I hope is supersceded with google's scholar.

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