Google Dataset Search is a search engine from
Google
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that helps researchers locate online data that is freely available for use. The company launched the service on September 5, 2018, and stated that the product was targeted at
scientist
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s and
data journalists. The service was out of beta as of January 23rd, 2020.
Google Dataset Search complements
Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes ...
, the company's search engine for academic studies and reports.
Features
Dataset Search can filter results based on the desired type of data (for example, focusing on images or text). It is also available in mobile.
Technology
Dataset Search is heavily reliant on dataset providers' use of metadata in accordance with the standards defined by the
schema.org
Schema.org is a reference website that publishes documentation and guidelines for using structured data mark-up on web-pages (called microdata). Its main objective is to standardize HTML tags to be used by webmasters for creating rich results (di ...
consortium. According to the Google AI blog,
Versions
Dataset Search was initially released in beta on September 5, 2018. It moved out of beta on January 23, 2020.
References
External links
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*https://www.technicalsaad.com/2020/01/google-dataset-search-makes-millions.html
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