[Web4lib] Google Print gets new name

[K.G. Schneider]

Well, in the time-honored practice of rhetoricians everywhere, let me change
the question under guise of clarification. What does "Google Book Search"
clarify for Ms. Prototypical of Tennessee that "Google Books" doesn't? 

 

I suppose we could call it Google Atomized Snippets, or Google
Old-Information-Wants-To-Be-Free, All-Others-Pay-Cash. but I'm missing some
nuance here that is going far over my schoolgirlish head.

 

Karen G. Schneider

kgs at bluehighways.com

 

 

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

 

On 11/23/05, K.G. Schneider <kgs at bluehighways.com> wrote: 

> I agree that "Google Book Search" is likely to be shortened by real people
> 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.

What's misleading, grossly, or otherwise? It's Google, and them are books..?

Karen G. Schneider
kgs at bluehighways.com

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