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❝First, ACM’s Digital Library traffic is heavily dependent on Google Scholar referrals — a large portion of how ACM authors’ work gets discovered runs through this single channel. Second, because Scholar is that front door, any change to how Scholar ranks and presents ACM papers directly shapes how ACM authors’ work is discovered and first accessed. Google is now making such a change.❞

❝First, ACM’s Digital Library traffic is heavily dependent on Google Scholar referrals — a large portion of how ACM authors’ work gets discovered runs through this single channel. Second, because Scholar is that front door, any change to how Scholar ranks and presents ACM papers directly shapes how ACM authors’ work is discovered and first accessed. Google is now making such a change.❞

It seems #Google #scholar has now really become #slopware. Every week I get weirder and weirder edit suggestions, this time to revert several published papers to their preprint versions..
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Reading the ACM’s “Google Scholar and the Version of Record” briefing, and it makes me sick.
In the end it comes down to Google threatening ACM to accept their conditions, and ACM threatening its members and authors to accept Google’s conditions—or else: Google will do it anyway, and if you don’t accept, it will be worse.
The way it’s presented, it’s obvious that ACM will enter the deal, regardless of what we say.

Reading the ACM’s “Google Scholar and the Version of Record” briefing, and it makes me sick.
In the end it comes down to Google threatening ACM to accept their conditions, and ACM threatening its members and authors to accept Google’s conditions—or else: Google will do it anyway, and if you don’t accept, it will be worse.
The way it’s presented, it’s obvious that ACM will enter the deal, regardless of what we say.

Reading the ACM’s “Google Scholar and the Version of Record” briefing, and it makes me sick.
In the end it comes down to Google threatening ACM to accept their conditions, and ACM threatening its members and authors to accept Google’s conditions—or else: Google will do it anyway, and if you don’t accept, it will be worse.
The way it’s presented, it’s obvious that ACM will enter the deal, regardless of what we say.

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