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

[Sloan, Bernie]

Thought this thread was interesting.

It's interesting to me when someone suggests that someone on this list
may be Google-bashing. A couple of months ago I posted a note to Web4Lib
about Google (I forget which note now). I received an offlist reply
accusing me of Google-bashing. And I received another offlist reply
saying that I shouldn't uncritically accept that everything that Google
does is "good". Both in response to the same posting. :-)

Bernie Sloan

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of
Walt.Crawford at rlg.org
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 3:35 PM
To: Elizabeth Harman
Cc: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org; web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] What's in a name (Google Book Search, that is)?

Here's a better one: It's the day before Thanksgiving, and the
tryptophan
is kicking in early...
We all need a vacation, maybe some of it unplugged! (He sez as he gets
ready to leave for the day.)
And we all need to be excused now and then, particularly right around
the
holidays.

And just as a parting shot, here's an interesting but not surprising
tidbit
from that Pew report that may help show why Google's made Gmail as
attractive as possible:

"On an average day, internet users on the comScore panel spent more than
24
minutes on email, compared to 3.5 minutes for search engines."

[I'm DEFINITELY not bashing Gmail, as witness my only other public email
address, waltcrawford at gmail.com]

Walt Crawford


web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org wrote on 11/23/2005 01:15:50 PM:

> Walt.Crawford at rlg.org wrote:
>
> > I haven't seen any Google bashing on Web4Lib either. ...
>
> After reading your response I have to admit that I'm wrong and I
> apologize. Can I use the "patrons seem to think that since its the day
> before a holiday they can violate policies and think I should turn the
> other cheek defense"?
>
> Liz
>
> --
> Liz Harman
> Internet Specialist
> Monticello Avenue
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