Consensus vs Google Scholar
Research shouldn’t feel like combing through pages of links — it should answer your question directly. Consensus saves users hours a day in reading through papers.
Consensus vs Google Scholar
Research shouldn’t feel like combing through pages of links — it should answer your question directly. Consensus saves users hours a day in reading through papers.
Consensus vs Google Scholar
Research shouldn’t feel like combing through pages of links — it should answer your question directly. Consensus saves users hours a day in reading through papers.
It was about time for academic search to evolve
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Google Scholar
Traditional keyword searches
Traditional keyword searches
List of paper results
List of paper results
No AI synthesis
No AI synthesis
Consensus
Conversational question answering
Conversational question answering
Answers with paper citations
Answers with paper citations
Automatic summarization of papers
Automatic summarization of papers
Consensus Outperforms Google Scholar for Academic Search
An independent evaluation shows that Consensus consistently beats Google Scholar with an overall relevance advantage of approximately 7–10%.
Average Precision
Measures the % of results that are truly relevant • Consensus: 88.1% • Google Scholar: 81.8% Consensus is 7.4% better at returning relevant papers.
Average Precision
Measures the % of results that are truly relevant • Consensus: 88.1% • Google Scholar: 81.8% Consensus is 7.4% better at returning relevant papers.
Average Precision
Measures the % of results that are truly relevant • Consensus: 88.1% • Google Scholar: 81.8% Consensus is 7.4% better at returning relevant papers.
Discounted Cumulative Gain (DCG)
Weights higher-ranked results more heavily to measure ranking quality. • Consensus: 45.16 • Google Scholar: 40.73 Consensus is 10.3% better at placing relevant papers at the top.
Discounted Cumulative Gain (DCG)
Weights higher-ranked results more heavily to measure ranking quality. • Consensus: 45.16 • Google Scholar: 40.73 Consensus is 10.3% better at placing relevant papers at the top.
Discounted Cumulative Gain (DCG)
Weights higher-ranked results more heavily to measure ranking quality. • Consensus: 45.16 • Google Scholar: 40.73 Consensus is 10.3% better at placing relevant papers at the top.
Average Relevance by Rank
Tracks relevance across each result position. Consensus delivers higher relevance at every rank, not just the top results, ensuring better overall search quality.
Average Relevance by Rank
Tracks relevance across each result position. Consensus delivers higher relevance at every rank, not just the top results, ensuring better overall search quality.
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