[jwr]

Already counting the days until this inevitably gets killed. I've been burned too many times to rely on Google for anything, except tracking me and pushing ads, which they indeed do better every day.

[cityhall]

I wonder if their real intent is to gather training data on which parts of papers are considered important by readers, and which topics are related to each other.

[occamrazor]

Scholar is heavily used internally, it’s unlikely to be discontinued even if it has never brought any money to Google.

[biofox]

Google Reader and RSS feeds were also heavily used internally :(

[tibbydudeza]

What replaced it - Google Wave ???.

[kadoban]

This is about a PDF reader though, not Google Scholar itself.

[bookofjoe]

Even so, isn't something better than nothing?

[fattybob]

Totally agree, seems all Google stuff has a life expectancy countdown

[moritz64]

google has worked hard to earn this reputation. i don't want to rely on any part of the google ecosystem anymore.