yes! "Google Scholar is very forgiving of bad searching. It will nearly always give you something, even if you enter “impact of cell phones on globalization” into the search box. (Two of my big goals for this last term were to get students to stop searching for “impact on” and “globalization.” I was only minimally successful.) Because it’s so forgiving, it can be a great place to start. However, it’s pretty bad at leading you to new search strategies once you’ve found the one article where the author uses your phrase in her abstract." - maʀtha

Of course SciFinder actually does prefer phrase-type search terms like that. Although there are other reasons why it'd be a bad idea to search in it for the "impact of cell phones on globalization". - Deborah Fitchett

Really? SciFinder wants you to state your topic into the search box? - lris

Yep, it automatically does concept mapping. - Meg V. Meg

Weird. Cool. Is it actually any good? Like, it has really good related term maps? - lris

It splits your topic at the prepositions and then matches each part against the index, among other natural language processing magics: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/chem... - Meg V. Meg

Man, that's pretty cool. Too bad I'm scared of SciFinder and will therefore never see this in action. :-) - lris

Nooooooooooooooooooooo it's fun! - Meg V. Meg

It also does structure searching (in which you draw the chemical and it searches on that). (As does ChemSpider, which is open access if anyone wanted to play with such fun-ness.) - Deborah Fitchett

Chemical searching -- such fun... - OMG 404 Joe