Is Google a scholarly source?

Is Google a scholarly source?

Google is not an academic source, or indeed, a source at all. Google Scholar is a branch of the Google search engine that strives to locate only scholarly sources, and bases the relevancy of an article on how often it was cited and who it was published by.

What kind of source is Google Scholar?

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

What is a scholarly peer reviewed source?

Peer-reviewed (refereed or scholarly) journals – Articles are written by experts and are reviewed by several other experts in the field before the article is published in the journal in order to ensure the article’s quality. (The article is more likely to be scientifically valid, reach reasonable conclusions, etc.)

What is visible Web?

The Surface Web (also called the Visible Web, Indexed Web, Indexable Web or Lightnet) is the portion of the World Wide Web that is readily available to the general public and searchable with standard web search engines. The Surface Web only consists of 10 percent of the information that is on the internet.

What is the invisible or deep Web?

The deep web, invisible web, or hidden web are parts of the World Wide Web whose contents are not indexed by standard web search-engines. The content of the deep web can be located and accessed by a direct URL or IP address, but may require a password or other security access to get past public-website pages.

What percentage of the Internet is deep Web?

between 96% and 99%

How much of the Internet is indexed by Google?

4 percent

What is the most popular Web page in the world?

Google.com

How big is the Internet in petabytes?

One way to answer this question is to consider the sum total of data held by all the big online storage and service companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook. Estimates are that the big four store at least 1,200 petabytes between them. That is 1.2 million terabytes (one terabyte is 1,000 gigabytes).