Saturday, August 13, 2005
Google Print halted
Google announced that they would halt scanning for Google Print. Staying true to their mission statement, Google has moved from organizing web content to actual books. Currently Google's crawlers will index a site unless the webmaster tells the crawler not to. It’s an opt-out system not an opt-in system as many people think it should be. The plan for Google print is to have an opt-out system, although this doesn't sit while with many people. Google has promised not to scan any in copyright books until this November. According to them this will allow publishers plenty of time to opt-out. So if Google does come across the book, they will not scan it. Google plans to scan whole libraries.
For years Google has been caching web pages with out the author’s actual consent. As mentioned earlier it's an opt-out system. It doesn't matter if the information is copy righted, they still do it. It’s kind of like they are free to break copyright laws until someone stops them. Google helps most sites more then they could imagine buts it’s defiantly something to think about. Google plans to help a lot of author's work get discovered but many publishers don't like the idea of an opt-out system. Some say the battle will end up in court. I'm no expert but I think Google has the weaker of the two arguments. Lets say the a court date is set and lets pretend Google loses, this could change a lot. Would they still continue caching web pages? Google would assumable profit from text ads and “buy this book” links. Maybe share some of this money with the authors/publishers of the books? Who knows how Google will work this out.
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For years Google has been caching web pages with out the author’s actual consent. As mentioned earlier it's an opt-out system. It doesn't matter if the information is copy righted, they still do it. It’s kind of like they are free to break copyright laws until someone stops them. Google helps most sites more then they could imagine buts it’s defiantly something to think about. Google plans to help a lot of author's work get discovered but many publishers don't like the idea of an opt-out system. Some say the battle will end up in court. I'm no expert but I think Google has the weaker of the two arguments. Lets say the a court date is set and lets pretend Google loses, this could change a lot. Would they still continue caching web pages? Google would assumable profit from text ads and “buy this book” links. Maybe share some of this money with the authors/publishers of the books? Who knows how Google will work this out.
Discuss this!
