Wow! Color me happy!

I just read about a new Google service, scholar.google.com in my daily posting of Science in the News:

GOOGLE PLANS NEW SERVICE FOR SCIENTISTS AND SCHOLARS
from The New York Times (Registration Required)

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17 - Google Inc. plans to announce on Thursday that it is adding a new search service aimed at scientists and academic researchers.

Google Scholar, which was scheduled to go online Wednesday evening at scholar.google.com, is a result of the company's collaboration with a number of scientific and academic publishers
and is intended as a first stop for researchers looking for scholarly literature like peer-reviewed
papers, books, abstracts and technical reports.

Google executives declined to say how many additional documents and books had been indexed and made searchable through the service. While the great majority of recent scholarly papers and periodicals are indexed on the Web, many have not been easily accessible to the public.
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I tried it with keywords "micro-oxidation" and" grape" and the search came up with 437 scholarly articles. As an online researcher, I am impressed. This is good stuff, Google. Keep up the good work.