October 12, 2006 9:18 AM PDT
University joins Google library project
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- poor search (looks like the algorithms used for web search are not used here at all)
- no clear permalinks
- no citation guidlines
- no API
Google Books could be a treasure trove if they would just open Google Books like they did for the maps: let the clients download the OCR-ed text, correct the text online, refer easily to a page or even a paragraph etc. Google Maps per se it's nice, but kinda useless, unless one is hunting for black helicopters, but integrated into the extensions other people built on top of it it's a good tool. If Google would let other developers use Google Books in a simiar manner, it's value would me much bigger that an "page image" equivalend of Project Gutenberg.