Quote to Note: Google on Books from the Voice of America
January 3, 2009
I had lost track of the Voice of America. In fact, I am not sure how the various US government information services interoperate these days. I navigated to a VOA story with the catchy title “Google Plans to Put All World’s Books Online”. Categorical affirmatives interest me because most of the usage of categoricals is logically imprecise. I was also interested in why this story ran on December 31, 2009. I gently pinged the VOA and got no response.
The write up summarizes the Google Book project. Not much new in the article, but there was a quote to note. Here’s what caught my eye:
Google insists the project is about more than money.
If not about money, perhaps the project is about information. The more information Google has, the more benefits accrue to the company. With “all” knowledge, some interesting opportunities arise for Google. I like that “more than money”.
Stephen E. Arnold, January 1, 2010
A freebie. I will report this to the Department of the Army.
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