Chris Nicholson's Writing Weblog
November 03, 2005 • Thursday
Yesterday Google officially launched Google Print, a search engine that allows visitors to research thousands and thousands of books. Literally. (Ha!)
A few publishers are griping about the copyright issues involved. I'm a rabid supporter of intellectual property rights, and even I believe that Google is going about this correctly. (For more information, see this answer on the FAQ page.)
I like the idea of Google Print, but they have some bugs to work out. I just did a search for "once upon a midnight dreary." The first result is the book Artificial Intelligence With Common Lisp, by James L Noyes. An Edgar Allen Poe book doesn't show up until the fourth link; the next Poe book is the tenth link.
When I clicked on the first link, I was asked to sign in to view what the site claims is a copyrighted work. "The Raven" has been in the public domain for a very, very long time.
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