Looksmart Launches New Vertical Search Engine for Scholars

By Marc Boucher on March 29, 2005 11:01 AM | Comments

Looksmart, joining Google's Scholar search engine has launched it's own 24 Hour Scholar search engine.

I'm not sure how it stacks up to Google, no pun indented, but creating vertical searches is something I've been advocating for some time.

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