[IP] Google library project issue begs a question
Begin forwarded message:
From: Suzanne Johnson <sjohnson@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: October 24, 2005 4:11:41 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Fwd: Google library project issue begs a question
this comes from reece@xxxxxxxxx (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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