Google Wants Your Links, Not Your Content

[Phil Davis <pmd8@cornell.edu>]

Kent Anderson posts a broad and alternative perspective on the 
future of content with respect to the Google Books Settlement, 
see:

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/04/14/links-matter-more-than-content-folks/

"Recently, there has been a great deal of hand-wringing over the 
Google Books Settlement. My view is that it's not a huge deal for 
authors or publishers to have their content indexed by Google and 
shown in snippets. We're so worried about where our content goes 
that we're missing the point. For Google, content is only a means 
to an end. What they are dominating and appropriating is 
distribution."

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--Phil Davis