Google Books errors may indicate large changes

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

While searching the Google Books database in recent days I have
encountered a large number of 404 errors. Here is a sample error
message:

404. That’s an error.
The requested URL << long URL name excised by me >> was not found on
this server. That’s all we know.

For example, a single search produced links with the following names.
All these links led to 404 errors, i.e., dead ends.

EEI bulletin - Volume 27 - Page 213
The Journal of the Florida Medical Association - Volume 47, Part 2 - Page 922
Protection - Volumes 81-82 - Page 213
Typo graphic - Page 85
St. Thomas's Hospital gazette - Volume 53 - Page 89
Telephone engineer and management - Volume 57 - Page 55

Google is either reorganizing their database index or removing a large
number of periodicals. This might be a manifestation of the
undisclosed provisions of the agreement between Google and publishers.

Garson

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Subject:      GoogleBooks settlement
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> More at the link:
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> The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Google officially laid
> down their arms on Thursday, ending a seven-year legal war with a peace
> agreement that both parties plan to keep sealed from the public and the
> courts.
> The AAP first sued Google in fall 2005, a year after it announced Google
> Book Search (also known as Google Books), a project the company had
> jump-started by scanning hundreds of thousands of books from the shelves
> of university libraries without seeking permission from the publishers
> or the authors. The publishers and authors teamed up to file a class
> action against Google and, after years of negotiating, agreed on a
> settlement -- only to have a judge reject it last year.
> Thursday’s agreement does not involve the Authors Guild, which is now
> engaged in separate litigation with Google, nor does it require court
> approval or public disclosure.
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