[Web4lib] Lack of discussion of Google CSE and Libraries

[Ross Singer]

Yeah, I wouldn't define Google's intentions as 'evil'.  There is the
small matter of 'history repeating itself' that I think you're not
considering.

Even as we speak about CSE here, librarians all over the world are
waking to the realization that we've completely given our data and
control over to our vendors and we have to figure out how to win that
back.

Getting completely in bed with Google or Yahoo or Microsoft or anybody
doesn't improve the situation.  It just shifts it.  They still have
control over the data.  They still have control over the service.

That's not to say that utilizing these services while they exist
shouldn't be done, they absolutely should be!  But I wouldn't praise
them as the messiah of the information age, either.

-Ross.

On 11/10/06, David Rothman <david.rothman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know about "evil" intentions, Bill- but Google certainly has motives
> that aren't being discussed much.  How about the fact that CSE provides
> users with an incentive to annotate the web for Google (and to google's
> benefit) via Google Marker?
>
> On 11/10/06, Drew, Bill <drewwe at morrisville.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Good points.  Many are concerned since this is another Google project
> > and may hide some "evil" intentions.  I think Google and our users
> > benefit from us working on using Google CSEs.  My own hope is to see
> > Yahoo and even Microsoft do something similar. The competition would be
> > healthy.
> >
> > Bill Drew
> > drewwe at morrisville.edu
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