Check out Stephen Bainbridge’s Fixing SSRN, Dan Solove’s Improving SSRN, and Bainbridge’s More on Fixing SSRN. Here is a taste from Solove:
SSRN needs better search functionality. The full text of PDFs should be searchable on Google. Ideally, the SSRN site would incorporate a Boolean search capability similar to that of Westlaw or Lexis. Right now, SSRN allows the searching of abstracts, but that’s often not helpful enough for research purposes.
Amen. If it isn’t on Google, it doesn’t exist.