[Web4lib] What's in a name (Google Book Search, that is)?

[Elizabeth Harman]

K.G. Schneider wrote:

> What Google bashing DOES take place on this list? I see intelligent
> discussion, tips for usage, reports of its activities, speculations about
> its future, worries about Google and its affect on libraries, positive
> comparisons with your typically evil ILS, explorations of its strengths and
> limitations, and the occasional "well, I sometimes search something else."
> Then there are some critiques that are valid, and are nearly always framed
> in debate-like back-and-forths. Did I miss a thread where we drubbed Google?

Yes the conversations are all of the above but they seem to start off 
with "Look what Google's doing NOW". Perhaps the thread on Google search 
results still rings in my head. For my purposes, and those of my 
Internet users, Google gives the results we have expected. I expect the 
same with GBS.

Look at our current thread. It was "Google Print changes its name" and 
now its become a conversation on why didn't they just call it "Google 
Books" - don't they realise that's shorter and easier to remember? That 
is a form of bashing - not extreme, but its still a case of Google 
didn't/doesn't do this right and here's why.

Liz

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Liz Harman
Internet Specialist
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