Elsevier Launches Its Science Search Engine

Scirus, a science-oriented search engine is launched by Elsevier, a major scientific journal publisher. Scirus includes a database of Elsevier articles available for a fee along with a portion of the Fast database. Note the following in its press release [Word format]. "It currently covers more than 60 million science-related pages and is capable of reading non-text files in formats such as PDF and Postscript." I could find no evidence yet that it actually indexes PDF or Postscript files on the Web, but apparently, it is capable of it.