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A land without Google?

Nature volume 463, pages 1012–1013 (2010)Cite this article

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A survey reveals how Chinese scientists could be affected by the stand-off between their government and the search-engine giant.

"Research without Google would be like life without electricity," says Xiong Zhenqin, an ecologist at Nanjing Agricultural University in Jiangsu province.

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Click here for the full survey results. The survey work was aided by Sara Grimme.

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Qiu, J. A land without Google?. Nature 463, 1012–1013 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/4631012a

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