[Web4lib] Google Books a tease, not a useful tool, for serious research

[Brian Gray]

I did not say I expected perfect results. My concern was that they do
not state that the patent search is cut short at X-number of patents.
I have helped several researchers now that assumed all the patent
results were displayed and proceeded under that poor assumption. They
claim to have ALL U.S. patents from middle of 2006 back (about 7
million patents) and advertise such heavily. But they do no warn
searchers that the "best" 600 are displayed only.

Brian Gray
mindspiral at gmail.com

On 7/6/07, Bill Drew <bill.drew at gmail.com> wrote:
> These comments are all valid concerns but do seem a bit disingenuous from
> people using an other free Google service, gmail.  To expect to get
> definitive results from any Google search service is a bit over the top to
> me.