I'm not surprised to see the proposal outlined in this paper. For academics, Google searches result in many (sometimes millions) of irrelevant results. And it doesn't search the 'deep web' of archived academic papers. Academic searches, meanwhile, are typically restricted to a particular site, such as, say, CiteSeer or PubMed, and these searches are too narrow. So the authors propose AcadeME, a meta-search engine for academic resources. Not surprisingly, "The comparison between AcadeME and Google emphasizes AcadeME's contribution to the quality of the results from the point of view of the academic user." Good paper, lots of detail, and as an added bonus, AcadeME is written in Perl.
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