Tom Keays wrote:
> Bad form. Following up on my own post. I also wonder why Google
> doesn't expose Google Books content in their general search engine
> results?
The main reason, which came up at the LC meeting at Google last week, is
that they don't have a way yet to rank the books. And even if they
figure out how to rank the books, how will they interleave the ranked
books and the ranked web pages? What is the relative rank between the
book ranked #1 and the article ranked #1 if the ranking criteria are
different? And they will be different, as Dan Clancy said at the
meeting, because, as he explains it, the web is already organized and
"ranked" through user-provided links. There is no user-provided ranking
in a set of books.
A key thing to remember is that Google is not so much a search engine as
it is a ranking engine. Searching is the easy part, and lots of other
systems also do it. It's the ranking that makes Google useful.
kc
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