Google library project issue begs a question

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Suzanne Johnson <sjohnson () pobox com>
Date: October 24, 2005 4:11:41 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Fwd: Google library project issue begs a question


> this comes from reece () pobox com (asking a question we've all  
> wondered about at some point):
>
> As the former Intel intranet search engine guru I have one question  
> that
> begs an answer.
>
> The publishers complain that the Google project will deny them the  
> possiblity of
> someday coming up with their own, revenue-enhancing full-text  
> search tool. So why hasn't that happened by now for their recent  
> catalog?
>
> For quite at least one and possibly several decades all books have  
> been put
> into digital format at some point for editing and typesetting  
> purposes.   Yet the
> publishing websites I checked out only allow searching by the   
> traditional
> card catalog fields.   Full text information retrieval tools have  
> been around
> a long time.   I bet I could hack out a prototype in a about a  
> week. What's
> taking the publishing industry so long?????
>
> John Reece
> Truckee, CA


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