I just came across an article by Thomas C. Rubin. Its titled Association of American Publishers. It has a mention about Google's Book Search Projects. In this project Google is making copy of each book ever published. it is simply scanning each book irrespective of its copyright status, Which clearly shows that google has no respect for copyright.

I would like to quote some lines from the article [Google says that it doesn’t currently intend to place ads next to book search results, Google’s broader business model is straightforward – attract as many users as possible to its site by providing what it considers to be “free” content, then monetize that content by selling ads.I think Pat Schroeder put it best when she said Google has “a hell of a business model – they’re going to take everything you create, for free, and sell advertising around it".]

What do you think about this?

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3/22/2007 2:53:58 PM (India Standard Time, UTC+05:30)
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I came across a blogpost where the information is given regarding google's new themes for personalized homepage. I really can't understand what is the link between "search" and giving "theme" to the search site. Do you go to a search site to see how good it looks. You only care that you get what you find. Personally I am not at all impressed with this theme thing. Google should now try to immitate something else. Maybe they can launch their own MP3 player :D

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3/22/2007 2:29:16 PM (India Standard Time, UTC+05:30)
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