Google

“ We write a thousand articles; Google spiders them and sends some traffic to those pages. Some small percentage of that traffic becomes Wikipedia contributors, increasing our contributor base. The enlarged contributor base then writes another two thousand articles, which Google dutifully spiders, and then we receive an even larger influx of traffic. All the while, no doubt in part due to links to our articles from Google, an increasing number of other websites link to Wikipedia, increasing the standing of Wikipedia pages in Google results. ”

“ Scale makes things different. Take the Web: none of us can hope to read even a fraction of all the pages on the Web, but by analyzing the link structures that bind all those pages together, Google is able to actually tease out machine-generated conclusions about the relative relevance of different pages to different queries. None of us will ever eat the whole corpus, but Google can digest it for us and excrete the steaming nuggets of goodness that make it the search-engine miracle it is today.
8. Ebooks are like paper books. [Ebooks are like paper books] . ”

“ Imagine that its Second Web capabilities allowed universal researches of the bibliome.
Well, why not imagine this library? Realizing such a dream is no longer a question of technology. Remarkable electronic libraries are already being assembled. Google Books aims to catalogue about 16 million books. The nonprofit Internet Archive already has some 1 million volumes. Public expectations run ahead even of these efforts. To do research, only one in a hundred American college students turn first to their university catalogue. Over 80 percent turn first to Google. ”

“ Too few, and we haven't divided things at all; too many and readers get tired before they can get through the whole list. When someone is Google searching how does he set the default for the number of hits on a page, and how many Google pages does he look through before giving up? What are the hazards of search terms that are either too broad or too specific? The problems that we need to address are not too different from those in Google searches. ”

“ By making the documents accessible by search engines through a standard protocol, you no longer even need to know the right URL for the thing you want. Just type a few choice words into Google and boom! back comes just the thing you wanted in a quarter of a second. ”

“ Among the best search engine-specific blogs are the Yahoo Search Blog, the Official Google Blog, Google Operating System, and Live Search Weblog.
The only thing predictable about search engines is how quickly and frequently they change not only their content but also their features. Because there are websites devoted to keeping up with the myriad changes, they are your best bet for staying on top of the ever-changing world of search tools. ”

“ The learning-on-demand scenario has already transformed the need to spend all one’s time memorizing facts. Google becomes a living index and repository for enormous content. We now live in a world of abundance where editing and curating become more crucial than ever.
It is under-appreciated how Google has empowered the geek generation to be fearless in picking up new languages, etc. Why? Because language compilers, integrated debugging environments, and operating systems generate error codes when they get stuck. An error code is meaningless to a human but it does wonders as input to Google. ”

“ Because Google’s snippets are arbitrarily and uniformly divided by lines of text, and not by complete sentences, paragraphs, or any measure dictated by content, a searcher would have great difficulty constructing a search so as to provide any extensive information about the book’s use of that term. As snippet view never reveals more than one snippet per page in response to repeated searches for the same term, it is at least difficult, and often impossible, for a searcher to gain access to more than a single snippet’s worth of an extended, continuous discussion of the term. ”

“ Google’s computers, along with millions of others, are connected to networks known collectively as the “Internet.” “The Internet is a world-wide network of networks ... all sharing a common communications technology.” Religious Tech. Ctr. v. Netcom On-Line Commc’n Servs., Inc., 923 F.Supp. 1231, 1238 n. 1 (N.D.Cal.1995) . Computer owners can provide information stored on their computers to other users connected to the Internet through a medium called a webpage. A webpage consists of text interspersed with instructions written in Hypertext Markup Language (“HTML”) that is stored in a computer. ”

“ Vast bulk of people here are neither net nor image geeks, they are interested in the magic of the word, and its transcription. Predominantly none of us has worried about the image scans having the Google component, and as it doesn't affect our transcription and presentation, we politely ignore it. ”

“ In the analysis of Wikipedia lists, the subject expert began their search in Google Books but also utilized interviews found in library databases to conduct their research.
The volunteer nature of Wikipedia also makes it an excellent source of editors with rich and varied subject knowledge. Domain experts from around the world can apply their extensive knowledge to articles and lists, at their own discretion and convenience. Catalogers are also subject experts but will likely be expected to work on materials purchased by other librarians. ”

“ Every time you request an old news story, it uses up electricity, and moves the heads around on disk drives, and adds a line to the server’s log, and puts a note in your NSA file, and so on. Which is all true, but pretty obviously not the sort of thing we had in mind, so let’s not mention it again. (Please, NSA?) )
The end result is pretty clear. It’s fine if Google goes and reads old news stories, but it’s not OK if it goes around posting to your blog. ”

“ And there are other trends in search that are going to have a major impact on users, love them or hate them. Among these are greater personalization of search, an area in which Google, Yahoo, and Live Search are all vying for your attention. Then there is the concept of social networking, through which Internet users with similar interests share their web knowledge and experience. Social bookmarking sites such as del.icio.us or digg and sharing software such as Stumbleupon are growing in popularity as individual users seek ways to help each other discover and propagate information. ”

“ Publishers, libraries, aggregators and others, including the general search engines such as Google, have also invested heavily to ensure that researchers and others can easily discover and navigate their way around the huge volumes of research content that are now available online. ”

“ Geographic analysis The report from Google Analytics contains columns with the country/territory name, the number of sessions, percent of new sessions, number of new users, the bounce rate (i.e. the percent of users who left the site) , the number of pages per session, the average session duration, and several columns related to advertising that contain no data in this case. Creating the reports required removing extra rows such as dates and totals, followed by sorting the data in several ways to answer different questions. ”

“ Ex. 8 (screen capture showing that there was no Google advertising in Google's cache copy of Field's Web pages) . The fact that Google is a commercial operation is of only minor relevance in the fair use analysis. The transformative purpose of Google's use is considerably more important, and, as in Kelly, means the first factor of the analysis weighs heavily in favor of a fair use finding. ”

“ There should be means to develop a Google query, not that I have experimented to do so. — billinghurst sDrewth 03:31, 30 August 2011 (UTC) I think 'foo "Page:Southern Historical Society papers" site:en.wikisource.org/wiki/' would work just fine.--Doug. (talk • contribs) 12:29, 31 August 2011 (UTC) Sure, but that doesn't work in the main namespace (our presentation space) which was the scope of the question. — billinghurst sDrewth 22:22, 31 August 2011 (UTC) Ironically, Google has no problem reading proofread pages in the mainspace; it's just our own search engine that can't do it. ”

“ Following the snippet, Google typically provides the full URL for the page. Then, in the same smaller font, Google often displays another link labeled "Cached." See Brougher Decl. ¶10. [2]
10.When clicked, the "Cached" link directs an Internet user to the archival copy of a Web page stored in Google's system cache, rather than to the original Web site for that page. See Brougher Decl. ¶8. By clicking on the "Cached" link for a page, a user can view the "snapshot" of that page, as it appeared the last time the site was visited and analyzed by the Googlebot. See id. ”

“ Some website publishers republish Perfect 10’s images on the Internet without authorization. Once this occurs, Google’s search engine may automatically index the webpages containing these images and provide thumbnail versions of images in response to user inquiries. When a user clicks on the thumbnail image returned by Google’s search engine, the user’s browser accesses the third-party webpage and in-line links to the full-sized infringing image stored on the website publisher’s computer. ”

“ Use modern technology Most databases are available via an interactive user interface on the web catering to the majority of users. Modern users demand that websites adhere to very high technical and design standards, as is commonplace with websites like Facebook and Google. Websites should have intuitive graphical design and support standard web browsers and operating systems. ”

“ Campbell and Google also illustrate the difference it can make in the world to protect transformative works through fair use. Easy enough to say (as the majority does, see ante, at 36) that a follow-on creator should just pay a licensing fee for its use of an original work. But sometimes copyright holders charge an out-of-range price for licenses. And other times they just say no. In Campbell, for example, Orbison’s successor-in-interest turned down 2 Live Crew’s request for a license, hoping to block the rap take-off of the original song. ”

“ Field decided to manufacture a claim for copyright infringement against Google in the hopes of making money from Google's standard practice. See id. at 79:8–15, 141:15–24.
25.Field admits he knew that any Web site owner could instruct Google not to provide a "Cached" link to a given Web page by using the "no-archive" meta-tag (as discussed above) . See Field Dep. at 74:8–22, 81:13–17. Field also knew that Google provided a process to allow Web site owners to remove pages from Google's system cache. See id. ”

“ If you care how information moves – and whether your grandchildren get an Internet that welcomes their active, creative engagement – you may already know that Wikipedia is the only top website that shares that passion, front and center, ahead of anything like a quarterly earnings report or a buyout by a Fortune 500 company. ”

“ You've thought through your research question and decided to use the Internet to find information either because you've already tried traditional sources without success or you believe the Internet is your best option. You're sitting in front of your terminal, you've logged onto the Internet and you're staring at a blank screen. Now what? Let's start with a (relatively) easy type of search. You need to find general information about a fairly broad topic. Let's say you need to research a broad topic unfamiliar to you, for example, Java. ”

“ More and more newspapers and magazines have a website on which their readers can find the full text or abstracts of the latest issue, archives giving access to the previous issues, dossiers on various topics, etc. More and more library catalogs are available on-line. And most sites offer hyperlinks to other websites or documents on related subjects. In short, the Internet has become an essential tool for getting information, having access to documents and broadening our knowledge. ”

“ What about finding information on the internet? "The internet has provided researchers with a vast database of information. The problem for them is to find what they are seeking. Never has the information overload been so obvious as when one tries to find information on a topic by searching the internet. When one uses a search engine like Lycos or AltaVista or a directory like Yahoo!, it soon becomes clear that it can be very difficult to find valuable sites on a given topic. ”

“ The Past, Present, and Future of Search
"Search has become the most hotly contested field in the world of technology." [4]
Remember Northern Light? How about Excite, Galaxy, Lycos, HotBot, Magellan, InfoSpace, Go, Webcrawler, iWon, Netfind, or Webtop? If so, you've been searching the Internet a long time because many of these search engines are long gone and forgotten. However many changes in search and search engines have taken place in recent years, nothing has been quite so dramatic as what has occurred in the past two years with the appearance of the new Yahoo and Live Search engines. ”

“ URLs are everywhere. Most obviously, they appear at the top of the browser window while people are using your website, but they also appear in a myriad of other contexts: in the status bar when someone has the mouse over a link, in search results, in emails, in blogs, read over the phone, written down on napkins, listed in bibliographies, printed on business cards and t-shirts and mousepads and bumper stickers. ”