Microsoft Academic Search

Microsoft has a new beta service out. It's called Microsoft Academic Search. It is still in beta which basically means that it is still a work in progress, but there seems to be a lot of potential. It is still fairly functional in its current state.

As of this posting, they have roughly 27 million publications to search through. It appears that Microsoft Academic Search is a search engine geared specifically towards searching through academic publications. It appears to offer similar functionality to the Google Scholar, but it's also broken down into various categories.


Here is the URL to the new service: http://academic.research.microsoft.com.