Reliable Search Engines and Data

Bases
Databases and search engines are both
capable of search for data and handling
queries. Each technology relies on
different paradigms to organize and
retrieve information.
While databases can store and retrieve a
vast amount of structured data, search
engines can search unstructured text.
WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DATABASES
AND SEARCH ENGINES?
CRITERIA FOR DATABASE CHOICE

Subject matter
Reliability of information
Time span
Google
Scholar
Google Scholar was
launched by Google in
November 2004 to much
publicity, with the aim of
making academic content
easily available.
Google Scholar searches
publishers’ databases and
open access repositories,
thereby mimicking the
attributes of a metasearch
engine, which searches
across particular resources
and by means of other
search engines as opposed
to randomly searching the
Web.
MICROSOFT
ACADEMIC
Microsoft Academic takes a
different approach and generates
for each paper that is indexed an
overview page that allows to easily
explore top citing articles and
references of the article.
SCIENCE.GOV

Science.gov searches over 60
databases and over 2,200 scientific
websites to provide users with
access to more than 200 million
pages of authoritative federal
science information including
research and development results.
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