Aaron Tay's Musings about Librarianship

Scholar Labs Early Review: Google Scholar Finally Enters the AI Era

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Nov 20 • 

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A 2025 Deep Dive of Consensus: Promises and Pitfalls in AI-Powered Academic Search

The recent addition of Consensus Deep Search mode is a great boost to its retrieval capabilities. On top of that, it has one of the most appealing…

Nov 15 • 

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ResearchRabbit’s 2025 Revamp: iterative chaining without the clutter

ResearchRabbit shipped its biggest update in years: a cleaner iterative “rabbit hole” flow, a more configurable citation graph, and an optional premium…

Nov 2 • 

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October 2025

“We’re Good at Search”… Just Not the Kind That the AI era Demands - a Provocation

I might be exaggerating slightly, but if you look at the few new evaluation matrices for AI-powered search circulating, “relevancy” is often just one of…

Oct 23 • 

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FORCE2026 in Singapore — Call for Proposals now open (extended 9 Nov 2025)

Also call for Sponsors!

Oct 19 • 

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Implications of AI-powered academic search - Recorded Talk

Quick catch-up to what I have been writing and thinking about

Oct 9 • 

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September 2025

The Petrol Tank for AI Discovery Might be Running Dry as Publishers close access to scholarly content such as abstracts due to AI incentives

Elicit.com, Consensus, and Undermind.ai are among the new leading comprehensive cross-disciplinary “AI-powered academic search engines” today.

Sep 27 • 

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Google's AI Mode: It Can Out-Search You, But Can It Out-Evaluate You?

Introduction

Sep 7 • 

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August 2025

What Academic "Deep Research" Is Really For

Orientation, not copy-paste prose.

Aug 11 • 

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Why I Think Academic Deep Research — or at Least Deep Search — Will “Win”

Aaron hypes up academic deep research and explains why

Aug 8 • 

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Why embedding vector search is probably one of the least objectionable use of AI for search

TL;DR Embedding‑based semantic search dodges many—but not all—criticisms aimed at ChatGPT‑style generative AI.

Aug 3 • 

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July 2025

The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search

From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics…

Jul 28 • 

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