This looks like an interesting study:
U.C. Berkeley, birthplace of early search highflier Inktomi and the school where Google CEO Eric Schmidt got his computer science doctoral degree, is bringing together roughly 20 faculty members from various departments to cross-pollinate work on search technology, said Robert Wilensky, the center’s director. The principal areas of focus: privacy, fraud, multimedia search and personalization.
It’s difficult in a classroom setting to deal with issues of search when teaching students how to partake in academic research. Many of them gravitate towards Google or Yahoo! immediately, without really evaluating the sources in any way. Google Scholar seems to be an interesting movement to a better way of doing this, by limiting these searches to a source pool that is better evaluated, but it’s not very useful because of the way it is limited.
