{"id":83,"date":"2006-12-18T08:42:18","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T16:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/18\/universal-google\/"},"modified":"2006-12-19T05:27:41","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T13:27:41","slug":"universal-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/rights\/intellectualproperty\/universal-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Google?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In D-Lib<\/em> magazine David Bearman provides an abstract<\/a> of the argument Jean-No\u00c3\u00abl Jeanneney (President of the Biblioth\u00c3\u00a8que nationale de France) presents in his Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge: A View from Europe<\/em> (University of Chicago Press, October 2006). Jeanneney argues:<\/p>\n

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  1. Google’s selection skews “the world’s knowledge” toward English-language texts, especially those from the U.S. (For example, searches for Dante, Cervantes and Goethe find not the original texts but English translations.)<\/li>\n
  2. Google snippets decontextualize texts, and the works presented so far are poor in visual quality.<\/li>\n
  3. Google Books SERPS inappropriately rank results, perhaps with a bias toward results with commercial ramifications.<\/li>\n
  4. There are dangers with the privitization of collective knowledge. Google has already shown a complicity with censorship in China.<\/li>\n
  5. Google’s liberal interpretation of copyright laws may not fully respect the legal or moral rights of authors.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Bearman concludes his abstract by expressing his opinion that “Jean-No\u00c3\u00abl Jeanneney has done us all a service by reminding us to look under the hood and hold Google, and those providing content to it, accountable. In the two years since Google first announced its ambitions, I think the D-Lib<\/em> community has largely given Google the benefit of the doubt; now that some results are visible and the implications are more clear, I think it’s time to publicly endorse open access to rights-cleared, high quality, scanned page images and reconsider the appropriate roles for academic and public institutions participating in commercial analogue heritage conversion efforts that don’t contribute to this end.”<\/p>\n

    this item first noted at if:book<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

    In related news: a few months ago Google announced a new program, Google Purge, as part of “a far-reaching plan to destroy all the information it is unable to index<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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