[superkuh]

That's nice and all, but google scholar recently removed all the 'cited by' 'related articles' and other links from the HTML pages of google scholar. It was like this for about two months before they restored the functionality. It likely they will remove it again soon. Google scholar is getting worse, not better. The google devs have no idea what a typical academic's computer is like around the world. They dev for their lived experience and it's just not applicable. A javascript (slow, computationally expensive) pdf reader is just another aspect of this ignorance.

[xnacly]

I couldn’t agree more, I dont want you displaying the pdf, let me download the file and view it with zathura

[adr1an]

Or Sioyek (vim keybindings!), Okular, Xournalpp, Zotero, ...

[lukeinator42]

Alongside this, I have found that Google Scholar's search has become noticeably worse in the last year or so. I can search for an author's name and a few keywords from a paper title and it won't show up, even if the paper has like 5000 citations.

[malshe]

Wow so I am not going mad! I had the same experience and it almost feels like Google is trying to recommend me papers based on my past searches. I hope they revert to their earlier algorithm

[newzisforsukas]

What are the base hardware requirements for a JavaScript PDF reader where it isn't "slow"?

[adolph]

A js pdf reader they control has monetization possibilities. Slip in an interstitial page for Naturally Fun Arkansas with an article from Nature. You don't want scholar going the way of reader do you?

[google234123]

Are you sure this actually happened? I never noticed this. can anyone else collaborate? Maybe you installed some extension that messed with the html

[superkuh]

Yes, I confirmed it with 3 other people on IRC a couple months ago. I didn't know google scholar had restored it until I checked right before I wrote the above post. I thought the links were still gone. They had been the last time I'd used google scholar about 3 weeks ago. Back then I also confirmed it myself first using 3 different computers, 4 browsers (with JS disabled), coming from 3 different IP addresses, both logged in to google and logged out. I probably wouldn't have started writing the post at all if I didn't think they were still gone.

I figure in addition to the feedback they received from me (and presumably others) at the time they saw a drop in usage and restored the functional version. But they'll try again.

[google234123]

I think you are wrong - I don't recall seeing this. Screenshots of scholar on twitter from feb, jan, dec all show those links

[superkuh]

Check at 2024 Feb 08 09:54:00 (am) CST. I definitely didn't confabulate the memory because the initial conversation about it (with others) is in my IRC logs. Sorry I don't have any screenshots of my own. Perhaps it was A/B testing or something.

[smeeth]

Check out https://openalex.org

I'm pretty optimistic that by the time google scholar really goes to shit they'll be good enough to pick up the slack.