William Ashley

Comments on Google Book Search excerpting...

2004/01/24 22:41 GMT
Like many of googles features it looks to be potentially useful, helping to determine if something has been in print/published etc.. If the book was "actually" online as well via the link, pdf source etc.., I could see how it could be very useful. Referencing online books which are not normally published offline however are still rather large as to be considered a book rather then a article would seem to be the next step. Book catagorization that is sci fi technicle romance as to a directory in a library will enable the whole of human resource to be catalouged and standardized for easy referencing via AI systems and search engine utilties. Google as the keyword the results were very odd. Of course economics and the print industry may be another issue however with services such as p2p you can begin to see the benifits of easily accessable information. That is a proliferation of skilled individuals, and greater ease in creating standards of use. http://print.google.com/print/faq.html [BOOK - BETA] About Google Print (BETA)[BOOK - BETA] About Google Print (BETA) It seems to return book excerpts with links to booksellers. .Here is an example The search feature works with approximately 120,000 titles from 190 publishers, which translates into some 33 million pages of searchable text. comment written by William Ashley

2004/01/24 23:00 GMT
Note I coined a new referencing ability for books and URI's called related links show links which are dealing with the same type of subject as a "specific" reference based upon human reasoning rather then web linkages heuristics. So to can web catagorization via keywords come into effect. With books themselves (size issues) be reference by section keywords via xml etc.. The capabilities of referencing systems is very large however it seems at a cost to bandwidth web structure becomes more layered and multifaceted. Google books does a few different things 1. Starts setting standards for online book sales and removes requirements for "multiple" sources for information. Google froogle google books and google ads serve as three potentially commercial outstretching with google further making a potential IPO offering the reasoning of commercial ease may pave the way to allowing google to have a greater base to which it can set standards for information retreival and display in some instances at cost thus generating revenue and allowing expansion and a greater service capability of its own past merits. In the long run as stated above it would be wonderful to see libraries governments and other publishes of public domain information in the form of books make available this same type of service only with the actual books inquestion free of charge. The print industry however when shown the capabilities of the internet for information, serve various roles. Like most shopping services it is about cross migration. Online competition is something else that has been played the last little while who exactly owns google after the ipo is a wonder with companies like yahoo and aol/timewarner and amazon perhaps even ebay all have good reason to be seriously invested in the future of google. Exactly what the result of googles commercilization on the spectrum of online search engines is questionable, however providing better services then one of the leading search engine providers on the planet with even more capital may hard pressed to be accomplished without competitors matching and providing even better services. Of course there is even more things to be done in internet referencing systems, I would see that cooperation would see more accomplishment however as with human civilization many times more competition for survival and personal stake creates drives for ambition, which although can make great accomplishment can make great tragedy. So google books may be part of a greater service and strategy for the long term survival of the social capabilities of Google.