>From Wired.com... -ac Google's Book Scanning Hits Snag
Stung by a publishing industry backlash, Google has halted its efforts to scan copyright books from some of the nation's largest university libraries so the material can be indexed in its leading internet search engine. The company announced the suspension, effective until November, in a notice posted on its website just before midnight Thursday by Adam Smith, the manager of its ambitious program to convert millions of books into a digital format. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,68513,00.html ----------- Google's been having a bad week, between this and their decision to refuse to cooperate with all journalists from CNET because one of their writers used Google to look up personal information about Google's CEO in an article about Internet privacy. I wrote all of this today over lunch, which you can find here: http://www.andycarvin.com/ permalink: http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2005/08/a_bad_week_for.html I also blogged a bit about the Denver library mess regarding Spanish-language content. If you're interested in the subject, it's on my blog: http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2005/08/libraries_serve.html -ac -- ----------------------------------- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media & Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.tsunami-info.org Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com ----------------------------------- _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
