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European Libraries Counter Google Digitisation

Posted by samzenpus on from the library-wars dept.

headisdead writes "A week after Google substantially improved their UK site, Deutsche-Welle carry the story that the a whole host of large European libraries (with the British Library's tacit support) have joined an EU-based digitisation project as a counter to Google's own library scheme. The project is the brainchild of BNF director Jean-Noel Jeanneney, a sort of mild-mannered Jose Bove for the librarians out there. Divisive pride, or healthy competition?"

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  1. Re:Bi-polar by synx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Biopolar is very well understood and is one of the depressions which responds very nicely to drugs. Webmd and google are you friends, just check things out.

  2. Does it really matter?-Jim Crow. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "And perhaps you might have heard of robots exclusion, too."

    Hey, now! We'll have none of those Jim Crow laws around here. Next thing you know, the humans will go to one kind of school, and the robots will go to another. A lube station for robots, and a drinking fountain for the humans. Soon we'll have an underground railroad, made from spare robot parts. Next there will be the uncivil war. Pitting robot, against maker. Old Abe Lincoln Log will soon get it, right in the old heartwood. After piece is made, and some of the dead are buried, while the rest go on to be a part of Eli Whitney's cotten gin. Oh then thereabouts after, some of the robots go north to form the United Auto Workers. The rest stay south, and get chased around by people with funny accents, wearing aspestos underwear, and carrying blowtorches. Then theres WW1 and then two, were some people who like saurkraut, and hate steel framed buildings, try to exterminate the Robojews.

  3. Why bother? by Jugalator · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Google doesn't even provide the full text. You can only browse maybe ~20 pages. And they're even designing the UI to make it hard to automatically grab those few pages. What's their problem with Google anyway?

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  4. Ok, this has gone too far by HishamMuhammad · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Tvo consecutive stories with Google on the title. And the scariest thing is that I don't know if I should post it now or wait for the next story...

    (Not to mention that, as others already pointed out, this is a total non-story.)

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