Google has launched a new dedicated dataset search engine that scrapes publicly available data from libraries and various sources to help people find reliable research for their projects.
Dataset Search is a handy tool for journalists, students, scientists, and researchers who need data to go with their research work. Natasha Noy, Research Scientist at Google AI said in a blog post,
Dataset Search lets you find datasets wherever they’re hosted, whether it’s a publisher’s site, a digital library, or an author’s personal web page,
Google made it possible by instructing dataset providers to set up their web pages and databases in a way that makes it easy for Dataset Search and other search engines to extract data from them. Noy added that these guidelines include details of terms to use the data, when it was published, how the data was gathered etc.
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Furthermore, the new search engine looks for other publications with similar data and aligns them together for the viewers. It also lists out any publications that may be talking about or describing a particular dataset.
The good thing is it takes data from multiple public sources, including government websites and news organizations and puts it in one place so you won’t have to dig through government archives or scientific journals to find the right research paper.
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So if you want to know the weather trends or perhaps car sales, you can just type it into the new Dataset search engine. Of course, it also inherits similar features from the main Google Search engine such as ‘keyword site:website.com’ – a feature, that retrieves search results only from a prescribed website.
The tool is still in beta right now, but it will soon get more features such as support for different languages. You can try it out for yourself by visiting Google Dataset Search.