Looking for Wine in all the Wrong Search Engines...

The way it works is that the wine of the month club sends out two bottles of wine to our home each month.  At first glance, I could not figure out why these results had been returned.  At closer inspection, the author of the first few articles had the last name of Wine.

This is comletely different from what you'll get on the main Google search. There, if you enter "wine" you';ll get more of what you expect. There's also several articles on Wine: a software program that let's people run Windows programs on their Unix systems.

RH Wine has written many articles in the field of biology.  JJ Wine has authored many papers on Cystic fibrosis.  RN Wine writes on topics in the field of toxicology.  These are just three of the authors with results dominating my search for wine on Google Scholar.

I changed my search in Google Scholar from wine to red wine.  The first scholarly article returned in my search for red wine was “Inhibition of oxidation of human low-density lipoprotein by phenolic substances in red wine”.  This article was published in 1993 in the British edition of Lancet.

An article entitled “The red wine phenolics trans-resveratrol and quercetin block human platelet aggregation and eicosanoid synthesis: implications for protection against coronary heart disease” was published in Clinica Chimica Acta in 1995.  There were five authors cited on this paper.

The American journal of clinical nutrition published “Consumption of red wine with meals reduces the susceptibility of human plasma and low-density lipoprotein to lipid peroxidation” in 1995.  This paper has been cited over two hundred times.  The author credited with writing it is B Fuhrman.

There were over sixteen thousand results returned when I did my Google Scholar search for red wine.  The article entitled “Antiplatelet activity of synthetic and natural resveratrol in red wine” is another article that has been cited many times.  The International journal of tissue reactions published this article in 1995 and now it has been cited 116 times.

The Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry published an article in 1980 entitled “Wine aroma composition: identification of additional volatile constituents of red wine”.  The article has been cited five times.  The author, P Schreier, has also written an article entitled “Flavor composition of wines: a review”.

If you want to dazzle your friends with the science behind wine then Google Scholar is a terric research. If you just want to learn about wine as a beverage and where to find it online then just search google proper.

Some of the searches returned by thge main google search engine are actually for Wine that you can drink, not just what you load into your Unix system. There are results for Wine Spectator Magazine, Guide to Wine Online, and others.

Now, if you enter "white wine" in the search you'll get more wine related results. You'll find overviews of white wine, the Wikipedia entry for same, a discussion of wine on Slashdot, and more.

Let's focus the search down to "white wine gifts" and things get much more relevant and interesting. Go farther and enter, "white wine gift baskets" and you'll get some really good searches.

The moral of the story is that to get general info on a variety of realted topics do your search on "wine."  If you want to learn the science behind wine, and other things, do your search on Google Scholar. If you're really looking for something specific, such as "Beringer Cabernet Sauvignon Knights Valley" you'll really get good results from the main search, but not much from Scholar.