Google has removed the link to the "best" version of Google Scholar
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In that same period, I have watched Google Scholar actually regress in it's usefulness. I understand that it is not called Google Legal Research but the updates to the search format since I started using it have actually made it harder to do the type of research I need as I have learned to get better. The only "improvement" I've seen is to literally remove old improvements.
Up until at least last week, they allowed you to revert back to the old look with a link on the main Scholar page. That link now appears to be gone and I hope that they will not remove the feature completely since the old link location itself still works.
Google needs to, at a minimum, put the option of using the "old" version and, optimally, should reinstate the "old" version as the "new new" version plus some actual improvements.