In response to Danny Sullivan's piece on why Google Print's caching is different from reprinting copyrighted work, Dan Thies of SEO Research Labs writes: "The thrust of Danny's argument, and I agree 100%, is that indexing the content of a book so that it becomes searchable is not the same thing as creating or publishing a copy of the book. He is correct about that, but his post perpetuates a misunderstanding about how search engines work."
Someone's saying that Danny Sullivan is presenting incorrect information on how a search engine works?? Them there's fightin' words. Okay, to be fair, he's just clarifying a point in a fairly extensive piece. Both are worth reading if you want some insight into how a search engine queries its index.
Eric Schmidt's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about Google Print argues "fair use" from a less technical perspective:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/10/point-of-google-print.html
In related news: The Open Content Alliance is scheduled today to demonstrate technologies it will use in its own book-digitizing project. The Open Content Alliance -- which is backed by Yahoo! -- operates under an opt-in premise, rather than Google Print's opt-out, and I think we're going to see a pretty big war between the two camps. We'll see how this plays out. More on this later.
Labels: Google
Posted by Melanie Phung
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GooglePrint - Finding Not Reading
In response to Danny Sullivan's piece on why Google Print's caching is different from reprinting copyrighted work, Dan Thies of SEO Research Labs writes: "The thrust of Danny's argument, and I agree 100%, is that indexing the content of a book so that it becomes searchable is not the same thing as creating or publishing a copy of the book. He is correct about that, but his post perpetuates a misunderstanding about how search engines work."
Someone's saying that Danny Sullivan is presenting incorrect information on how a search engine works?? Them there's fightin' words. Okay, to be fair, he's just clarifying a point in a fairly extensive piece. Both are worth reading if you want some insight into how a search engine queries its index.
Eric Schmidt's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about Google Print argues "fair use" from a less technical perspective:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/10/point-of-google-print.html
In related news: The Open Content Alliance is scheduled today to demonstrate technologies it will use in its own book-digitizing project. The Open Content Alliance -- which is backed by Yahoo! -- operates under an opt-in premise, rather than Google Print's opt-out, and I think we're going to see a pretty big war between the two camps. We'll see how this plays out. More on this later.
Labels: Google
Posted by Melanie Phung