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When I do research I go through a lot of papers, many of them are discarded after the first couple of sentences. It would slow me down a lot, when I had to contact all of the authors in the first place.

How useful would google really be, if you had to contact every author before reading the actual website?

What's the practical difference between getting any paper you need from the authors and getting any paper you need from such a website? Except much more work for anyone in the former case without any benefit.

Practically speaking, none I can think of. But I completely disagree that the networking aspect has no benefit.

Because it currently wouldn't be possible to make a site of this scale with that method.