{"id":578,"date":"2019-07-17T16:40:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T14:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/?page_id=578"},"modified":"2019-08-08T16:58:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T14:58:05","slug":"1-7-3-specialist-search-engines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/1-7-3-specialist-search-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"1.7.3. Specialist search engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Specialist search engines<\/strong> (also called <strong>vertical<\/strong> search engines) allow for filtering searches according to specific standards. For instance, <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.es\/schhp?hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0,5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Scholar<\/a> shows results from the training and academic-related arenas (usually, articles and reviews in PDF format). This guarantees the quality and the relevance of the information found.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_725\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-725\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-725 size-large\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/figure_14_google_scholar_picasso-1024x791.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/figure_14_google_scholar_picasso-1024x791.png 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/figure_14_google_scholar_picasso-300x232.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/figure_14_google_scholar_picasso-768x593.png 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/figure_14_google_scholar_picasso.png 1164w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 14. Google Scholar, a specialist search engine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The advantage of vertical search engines lies in the fact that they provide excellent results, because the user has previously defined the topic area.<\/p>\n<div class=\"featured featured-grey\"><p>For instance, at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.internationalstudent.com\/scholarships\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.internationalstudent.com\/scholarships\/<\/a> we will only find calls for institutional funding, or else <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IMDb<\/a>\u00a0will be really useful to us in order to find results related to cinema or TV products. In a similar manner, at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buscabiografias.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.buscabiografias.com<\/a> you will find biographies of famous people (only in Spanish). <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"featured featured-blue\"><p>It is necessary to choose the searcher for the specific topic area appropriately.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Specialist search engines (also called vertical search engines) allow for filtering searches according to specific standards. For instance, Google Scholar shows results from the training and academic-related arenas (usually, articles and reviews in PDF format). This guarantees the quality and the relevance of the information found. The advantage of vertical search engines lies in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/578"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/578\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}