Google Books' Biggest Screw-Up Danger??

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Mon Sep 10 02:18:46 UTC 2007


How 'bout a denial of service attack?  Flood this mailbox with
complaints about the deficiencies in searches inside books.

Joel

At 9/9/2007 04:40 PM, Lon L wrote:
>Oh, I didn't say it was easy. They clearly don't want to hear from
>anyone.  But after exercising my ingenuity to the red limit, I found
>the following address:
>
>   inside-book-search at google.com
>
>   My e-mail was evidently delivered. A promising though not conclusive sign.
>
>   JL
>
>"Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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>At 9/8/2007 07:31 PM, Jon L. wrote:
> >To my dismay I have discovered yet another pitfall in Google Books.
> >
> > After the maddeningly familiar gap created by pages "not part of
> > this book preview," a book by Deputy Soviet Foreign Minister A. Y.
> > Vyshinsky entitled _The USSR and World Peace_
> > (N.Y.: Ayer, 1949), suddenly becomes at p. 143, without even the
> > warning of a new albeit hidden title page, a rather different book,
> > _The Mind on the Wing_, by Herbert F. West, a collection of essays
> > on books and book collecting.
> >
> > I have referred the matter to Google.
>
>Jon, can you reveal to us your pathway in to Google? It seems to be
>a one-way street straight from Mad. Ave. -- I haven't noticed any way
>to send them mail.
>
>Joel
>
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