Comments on: How Microsoft Taking Over Yahoo! (Proxy Fight/Entryism) Harms the Industry, Not Just Yahoo! http://techrights.org/2010/09/26/price-of-microsoft-astroturfing/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: NotZed http://techrights.org/2010/09/26/price-of-microsoft-astroturfing/comment-page-1/#comment-100725 Mon, 27 Sep 2010 03:44:53 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=39513#comment-100725 The sad thing is that i’m starting to use yahoo! (i.e. bung) to search for papers on software engineering.

All google turns up easily are cloaked paywall sites and you have to do a lot of digging to find freely available versions of papers (e.g. pre-published), although that usually turns into an impractical task. Cloaked sites are against their terms of service, but not apparently if you’re big enough/pay them (elsevier and other scumbag leeches).

Perhaps what is most worrying is that it is simply impossible to find all such information without using a global search engine …

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