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

[Jonathan Lighter]

Yeah, and with the RIGHT DATES too!

  JL

"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 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.
> > >
> > 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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