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Re:It seems that Google is forgetting the old web by xorand on Monday April 08, 2019 @08:55AM (#19604722)
Yesterday I noticed that Google Scholar forgot one of my articles from 2018, on arXiv. See: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=arXiv%3A1811.04960 Google Scholar is not the same as Google Search, which can still find it https://www.google.com/search?q=arXiv%3A1811.04960 For how long, I have no idea. The article was at the same link all the time and arXiv is very reputable.
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Re:It seems that Google is forgetting the old web by eruci on Monday April 08, 2019 @09:30AM (#19604955)
I also noticed that all our scholarly articles are gone from Google Scholar. The only thing there is our two highly cited books. https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=site%...

We've come to rely on Google too much, so much that if you are not on Google you don't exist. That's a problem with researchers that are looking for articles to cite.

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Re:It seems that Google is forgetting the old web by xorand on Monday April 08, 2019 @10:27AM (#19605486)
Somebody starts a site for collecting "scholar dropouts"? An article qualifies as a scholar dropout if:

- it was previously available on Google Scholar

- it cannot be retrieved, or the search on Google Scholar gives a misleading result (for example it gives another article, as explained in [1])

Please help to make a list of scholar dropouts! Thank you.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19604722 HN comment with evidence

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19604955 HN reply with another evidence

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Re:It seems that Google is forgetting the old web by xorand on Monday April 08, 2019 @09:53AM (#19605181)
Is this recent? In my case I noticed it yesterday.
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Re:It seems that Google is forgetting the old web by eruci on Monday April 08, 2019 @10:35AM (#19605564)
The articles are still on Google Search though: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Arepo.risat.org

Fingers crossed they don't get dropped from the main index too.

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Re:It seems that Google is forgetting the old web by eruci on Monday April 08, 2019 @09:57AM (#19605212)
I also just noticed it. No idea when the rest of the papers were dropped.
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Re:It seems that Google is forgetting the old web by xorand on Thursday April 11, 2019 @05:36PM (#19639481)
I sent today a message to Google Scholar with this https://support.google.com/scholar/contact/general
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