Switch Google web search to scholar search
Alec Jacobson
May 11, 2012
Google removed "Scholar" from the drop down list of choices when searching the web. I had become very used to searching for something, either from the main google page or my browsers address bar and then switching the search to google scholar. Now I would have to first go to scholar.google.com and retype the search query or copy and paste the query.
Finally instead I found the way to quickly change the URL at the top of the web search to switch it to a scholar search. If this is your web search url:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=Fast+Automatic+Skinning+Transformations&oq=Fast+Automatic+Skinning+Transformations&aq=f&aqi=p-p1&aql=&gs_l=serp.3..35i39.2032.2203.0.2388.2.2.0.0.0.0.70.124.2.2.0...0.0.wzP9uU0hsCc
just replace search with scholar
http://www.google.com/scholar?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=Fast+Automatic+Skinning+Transformations&oq=Fast+Automatic+Skinning+Transformations&aq=f&aqi=p-p1&aql=&gs_l=serp.3..35i39.2032.2203.0.2388.2.2.0.0.0.0.70.124.2.2.0...0.0.wzP9uU0hsCc