Google Books' Biggest Screw-Up Danger?? (UNCLASSIFIED)

[David Borowitz]

I don't really have a legitimate "in" in that I don't personally know
anybody on the book search team. It just happens that, for whatever reason,
the only form I could find to submit this kind of problem was on the
intranet, so I thought I'd help out with what little I can. (Criticize this
policy if you want. I don't have any inside information, but my guess is
that if they opened this up to everybody it would be inundated with little
requests at a pace beyond the ability of anyone to respond. To the point,
perhaps, that more serious issues like this one would be completely lost in
the noise.)

On 9/10/07, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
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> If you do have a legitimate "in" to the people who run this project, an
> even bigger improvement would be for them to make fully viewable those
> documents which are obviously in the public domain -- government
> documents, and those items published before 1923, etc.
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> > I'm an intern at Google, and I posted something on an
> > internal list of typos/mistaggings for Book Search. No
> > guarantee there'll be a response, of course, but it can't hurt.
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> > Dave
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> > On 9/10/07, Chris F Waigl <chris at lascribe.net> wrote:
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> > > Joel S. Berson wrote:
> > > > How 'bout a denial of service attack?
> > > A very bad idea, and not the same as...
> > > > Flood this mailbox with
> > > > complaints about the deficiencies in searches inside books.
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> > > I've written to a friend who works at Google on Blog Search
> > and who's
> > > certainly sympathetic to these uses of Google Books. With a bit of
> > > luck he might be able to suggest a real human contact.
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> > > If I hear something I'll post it.
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> > > Cheers,
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> > > Chris
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