Science Search Engine Being Developed

Elsevier Science announced on Tuesday that they're developing a search engine designed for finding scientific information. The engine is called Scirus ( http://www.scirus.com .

While the full site will not launch until March of next year, you can preview a version now at the Web site. It's a standard search form (in fact, the technology is provided by FAST Search and Transfer, the folks behind AlltheWeb.com.)

I tried search for all the words adrenal insulin uptake. I got over 1390 results. Interestingly, the search is divided into three tabs: all the results (the default), free access, and restricted access. This is an elegant way to divide out the free and paid materials without having to do a lot of flipping back and forth. The restricted materials I saw were, as far as I could tell, Elsevier properties (surprise surprise.) At the bottom of each page you have the option to save your results. There's also a list of keywords at the bottom of the page that you can use to narrow down your search.

Go take a look. This could be mighty interesting if they get a huge mass of content.

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