{"id":1350,"date":"2009-02-04T21:24:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T04:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/02\/they-know-your-secret-place-they-know-what-books-you-read\/"},"modified":"2009-02-04T21:24:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T04:24:05","slug":"they-know-your-secret-place-they-know-what-books-you-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/04\/they-know-your-secret-place-they-know-what-books-you-read\/","title":{"rendered":"They Know Your Secret Place, They Know What Books You Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/02\/technology\/internet\/02link.html\" target=\"_blank\">from the NY Times<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 3px\"><nyt_headline type=\" \" version=\"1.0\">Some Fear Google\u2019s Power in Digital Books<\/nyt_headline><\/h1>\n<p><nyt_byline type=\" \" version=\"1.0\"><\/nyt_byline><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt\" class=\"byline\">By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/c\/noam_cohen\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #000066\" title=\"More Articles by Noam Cohen\">NOAM COHEN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>IN 2002,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/business\/companies\/google_inc\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #000066\" title=\"More information about Google Inc\">Google<\/a>\u00a0began to drink the milkshakes of the book world.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2009\/02\/02\/business\/02link.2.650.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"154\" width=\"248\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/>Back then, according to the company\u2019s official history, it began a \u201csecret \u2018books\u2019 project.\u201d Today, that project is known as Google Book Search and, aided by a recent class-action settlement, it promises to transform the way information is collected: who controls the most books; who gets access to those books; how access will be sold and attained. There will be blood, in other words.<\/p>\n<p>Like the oil barons in the late 19th century, Google is thirsty for a vital raw material \u2014 digital content. As Daniel J. Clancy, the engineering director for Google Book Search, put it, \u201cour core business is about search and discovery, and search and discovery improves with more content.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He can even sound like a prospector when he says Google began its effort to scan millions of books \u201cbecause there is a ridiculous amount of information out there,\u201d he said, later adding, \u201cand we didn\u2019t see anyone else doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But there is a crucial difference. Unlike Daniel Plainview, the antihero of \u201cThere Will Be Blood,\u201d played by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/d\/daniel_daylewis\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #000066\" title=\"More articles about Daniel Day-Lewis.\">Daniel Day-Lewis<\/a>, who cackles when describing how his rigs can suck the oil underneath other peoples\u2019 property \u2014 drink their milkshakes, if you will \u2014 when Google copies a book the original remains.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the \u201cproperty\u201d being taken is represented by copyrights and other kinds of ownership. There will be lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/02\/technology\/internet\/02link.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the NY Times Some Fear Google\u2019s Power in Digital Books By\u00a0NOAM COHEN IN 2002,\u00a0Google\u00a0began to drink the milkshakes of the book world. Back then, according to the company\u2019s official history, it began a \u201csecret \u2018books\u2019 project.\u201d Today, that project is known as Google Book Search and, aided by a recent class-action settlement, it promises [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}