[Web4lib] OCLC numbers of Google Books?

Robert L. Balliot rballiot at oceanstatelibrarian.com
Sun Jul 20 08:23:30 EDT 2008



With Google at around 70% US and 87% Euro searches, 
the mystery of placement drives all of the commercial
SEO strategists to search and research, test and retest
optimization.

It is not only competitive protection, it is a brilliant
strategy that increases use of the Google search engine 
and apparent market share of search. As apparent
market share increases, so does testing to determine
parameters of the algorithm.

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-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Tim Spalding
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 8:44 AM
To: Janice Christopher
Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] OCLC numbers of Google Books?

No, there is no list of what they've done, keyed to any identifier.
Google resists attempts to understand what they've done and what they
have not. The head of GBS explained this to me as competitive
protection.

T

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Janice Christopher
<Janice.Christopher at uconn.edu> wrote:
> Does it exist: Any source listing the OCLC record numbers for print
> books added to Google Books?
>
> TIA,
>
> janice
> ----------
> Janice Christopher
> Catalog Management Librarian
> UConn Libraries
> 860-486-2636
> janice.christopher at uconn.edu






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