Google launches ‘Dataset Search’ to help scientists and journalists
Google Dataset Search: This new search engine helps scientists hunt for public data Google on Wednesday launched a new search engine targeted at the scientists, data journalists, data geeks or anyone else looking for precise datasets online. The service called Dataset Search is a targeted search that can help scientists and data journalists find the data required for their work and their stories, or simply to satisfy their intellectual curiosity. The new search engine works similar to Google Scholar, the company’s popular search engine for academic studies and reports. Dataset Search enables users to find datasets stored across thousands of repositories on the Web, making these datasets universally accessible and useful. “Dataset Search lets you find datasets wherever they’re hosted, whether it’s a publisher’s site, a digital library, or an author’s personal web page,” Natasha Noy, Research Scientist, Google AI, said in a blog post. To create Dataset Sear...