What good sources do you have for the adoption of a 40 hour work week as a quality control measure?
I had always imagined 40 hours to be the somewhat arbitrary point at which management, labour, and legislative negotiations arrived based on some other arbitrary calculations such as: dividing a 24 hour day in thirds, and dropping a day from a previous 6 day work schedule. I would be interested in knowing about any findings that 40 hours in a work week was a more optimal quality control point than 35 or 45 hours.
Google has always been about searching indexed content. Google has never demonstrated an understanding of browsing. Browsing is a different paradigm from searching indexes.
Information seeking is common to both searching indexes and browsing. The Yahoo directory and the Open Directory are about browsing. Yes, Google indexes both of them and provides a dedicated search on the Open Directory. Yet Google does not seem to understand browsing any more than indexing content such as that provided by the Open Directory.
Browsing is a much harder problem on an internet scale than providing a search index. Browsing, like expert systems has good results for limited domains.
Furthermore, browsing content does not seem to fit with what Google may imagine as its own idea of how to maximise ad revenue. Google seems to have adopted the strategy of driving users to its core search index rather than segmenting users or confusing them with other means of accessing information. Remember, this is still a world where almost all queries are two words, not usually the best means of finding the most relevant results.
Does anyone want to help me hack the browsing problem?
Oops, subject of parent should have been "Library or Publisher Supplied Texts?"
One implication is that if the scanned books found are only supplied by the publishers and not libraries, then the original Slashdot article is old news about the contents of Google Print.
How are any found texts identified as texts from the Google library scanning program as distinguished from the earlier Google Print publisher program, which scanned books supplied by publishers? Just because the earliest form of the text is old, does not mean that the texts used were supplied by a library as opposed to a publisher's current edition. From the copyright notice dates reported in the examples given, the texts seem more likely to be originating from the Google Print publisher program.
Independently of the possible library or publisher origin of a scanned book, can anyone find examples where the copyright notice of the scanned copyright page itself clearly places the book in the public domain?
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What good sources do you have for the adoption of a 40 hour work week as a quality control measure?
I had always imagined 40 hours to be the somewhat arbitrary point at which management, labour, and legislative negotiations arrived based on some other arbitrary calculations such as: dividing a 24 hour day in thirds, and dropping a day from a previous 6 day work schedule. I would be interested in knowing about any findings that 40 hours in a work week was a more optimal quality control point than 35 or 45 hours.
Google has always been about searching indexed content. Google has never demonstrated an understanding of browsing. Browsing is a different paradigm from searching indexes.
Information seeking is common to both searching indexes and browsing. The Yahoo directory and the Open Directory are about browsing. Yes, Google indexes both of them and provides a dedicated search on the Open Directory. Yet Google does not seem to understand browsing any more than indexing content such as that provided by the Open Directory.
Browsing is a much harder problem on an internet scale than providing a search index. Browsing, like expert systems has good results for limited domains.
Furthermore, browsing content does not seem to fit with what Google may imagine as its own idea of how to maximise ad revenue. Google seems to have adopted the strategy of driving users to its core search index rather than segmenting users or confusing them with other means of accessing information. Remember, this is still a world where almost all queries are two words, not usually the best means of finding the most relevant results.
Does anyone want to help me hack the browsing problem?
Oops, subject of parent should have been "Library or Publisher Supplied Texts?"
One implication is that if the scanned books found are only supplied by the publishers and not libraries, then the original Slashdot article is old news about the contents of Google Print.
How are any found texts identified as texts from the Google library scanning program as distinguished from the earlier Google Print publisher program, which scanned books supplied by publishers? Just because the earliest form of the text is old, does not mean that the texts used were supplied by a library as opposed to a publisher's current edition. From the copyright notice dates reported in the examples given, the texts seem more likely to be originating from the Google Print publisher program.
Independently of the possible library or publisher origin of a scanned book, can anyone find examples where the copyright notice of the scanned copyright page itself clearly places the book in the public domain?