http://strangelibrarian.org/2007/10/google-as-big-brother/ playing in the waves since 1982 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:54:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://strangelibrarian.org/2007/10/google-as-big-brother/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Aaron Tan Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:03:08 +0000 http://strangelibrarian.org/blog/?p=136#comment-90 Google is a black box in many ways. It knows so much about us, yet we know so little about what it does behind the scenes. I guess people are willing to surrender some privacy in exchange for a useful service, otherwise Google would not have been successful right from the beginning. What concerns me most is the Google Book Project. There is no guarantee that Google will protect the privacy of users the same way libraries do. Yet, libraries are still willing to turn their years of work in collection development over to a black box just for digitized copies of their books. Google is a black box in many ways. It knows so much about us, yet we know so little about what it does behind the scenes. I guess people are willing to surrender some privacy in exchange for a useful service, otherwise Google would not have been successful right from the beginning. What concerns me most is the Google Book Project. There is no guarantee that Google will protect the privacy of users the same way libraries do. Yet, libraries are still willing to turn their years of work in collection development over to a black box just for digitized copies of their books.

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