[Web4lib] Google Print gets new name

Richard Wiggins richard.wiggins at gmail.com
Sun Nov 20 23:20:09 EST 2005


In any language, the new name is still confusing. Is the point to find
books, or to search the full text of books? Are the items on the hit list
"snippets" or are they full text of books? What do end users think they are
searching for? What do they expect to retrieve?
 Plus ça change...
 /rich
 On 11/19/05, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
>
> Sloan, Bernie wrote:
> > Google has changed the name of Google Print to Google Book Search:
>
> Just wait til the French discover that http://livres.google.fr/
> gets an automatic redirect to http://books.google.fr/
>
> :-)
>
>
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