[Web4lib] Google Print gets new name

[Ross Singer]

So, how is this worse than your library catalog?

-Ross.

Richard Wiggins wrote:

>What's misleading is: what object are you retrieving?  If it's an out of
>copyright or in some cases apparently out of print book, you get full
>text.   If it's in-copyright, you apparently get a "snippet" and perhaps a
>link to purchase the book.
>
>Today, for this crowd, that is all understandable, parsable. For the
>prototypical school girl in Carthage, Tennessee searching the Google Books
>Search collection, is the book from 1899 in full text superior to the book
>from 2005 in snippet?
>
>/rich
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>On 11/23/05, K.G. Schneider <kgs at bluehighways.com> wrote:
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>>>I agree that "Google Book Search" is likely to be shortened by real
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>>people
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>>>in everyday use, but it's hard to imagine a better alternative that's
>>>reasonably concise, contains the target word "books" yet isn't grossly
>>>misleading.
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>>What's misleading, grossly, or otherwise? It's Google, and them are
>>books..?
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>>Karen G. Schneider
>>kgs at bluehighways.com
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