[Web4lib] OCLC numbers of Google Books?

[Bob Duncan]

At 08:23 AM 07/20/2008, Robert L. Balliot wrote:

>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.


Not the first time I've potentially missed the obvious, but how would 
providing a list of the OCLC numbers for books contained in Google 
Book Search compromise Google's competitive edge as a search engine?

Bob Duncan


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