…My heart's in Accra » Alex MacGillivray explains the Google Books settlement - 0 views
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Claude Almansi on 29 Jul 09Alex explains that the goal of Google Books was to make books easier to find. He references an article in the New York Times in which librarians lamented that people were only searching online materials, not printed books. He references a story in which a research assistant was asked by Larry Lessig to come back with "everything Senator X said about topic Y" and returned only with results after 1996… which is to say, only results from the web.