[Web4lib] google & library catalogs

[Jim Campbell]

Well, there are probably at least a few people who think GBS might become
the place to look. Most of them work in Mountain View, CA.  They probably
also think selling digital versions of books or parts of books is going to
take off.

- Jim Campbell
Campbell at Virginia.edu
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org 
> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of K.G. Schneider
> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 3:26 PM
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: RE: [Web4lib] google & library catalogs
> 
> >  > Does anybody really think that Google/GBS would ever overtake 
> > Amazon as 'the place to look for books'?
> > 
> > I don't, but then I can remember attending a presentation back in
> > '97/'98 on various search engines, and there was this new 
> one called 
> > "Google", and I remember saying "That'll never take off. 
> Stupid name."
> 
> The first time I saw a web browser (the CERN line-mode 
> browser) I remember rolling my eyes and thinking, "This will 
> never take off." 
> 
> Though to my credit (one of my few moments of real 
> prescience) the day I installed Trumpet Winsock and Mosaic 
> and pulled up pictures of planets on my home computer, I knew 
> I was seeing something hugely transformative. I wish I knew 
> why I knew that--I'd be a tycoon. 
> 
> I didn't posit that Google/GBS would overtake Amazon. I 
> posited that GBS might eclipse libraries. You can call that 
> strange or unlikely; time will tell. 
> 
> Karen G. Schneider
> kgs at bluehighways.com 
> 
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