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Follow on Google News | ![]() Academic Search Engine Knobull Outstrips Commercial Search Engines' Learning ResultsBy: Knobull This indicates that there is a significant difference between a general search engine and an academic search engine. Following are some of those differences:
The Knobull academic search engines plays an important role in improving the knowledge and advancing further research in an academic field. Reasons for searching through Knobull are: Organized data: The data is indexed and organized. This helps the researchers to avoid irrelevant information. Authentic articles: It provide authentic and reliable research articles to provide access to various libraries that feed them with relevant and high-quality articles. Quality reviewed: The quality control team assigns the quality grade to articles. This is of immense importance as many-a-time, the researchers require the articles published in journals with high impact factors. Easy access: As compared to a general search engine, the user experience in searching the research articles is favorable in Knobull. For instance, if a researcher searches an article about a disease or drug, the general search engine provides both relevant and irrelevant articles. Bentley concluded, "Knobull displays friendly eye appeal using a minimalist design strategy. The sites secure engine service pulls from over five billion web pages, encyclopedias, journals and books. This, combined with learning collaboration and guidance tools, provides private one stop support for academic success. The Search Engine is similar to Google in its functionality, except that it doesn't collect personal data and focuses exclusively on scientific and academic results—meaning more results will come from .edu or .org sites, as well as online encyclopedias. It also has an option to search or use links to capture documents directly—providing easy access to PDFs of academic papers." End
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