David Kirkpatrick, Google: Going Beyond the Web, Fortune, February 10, 2005. An interview with Marissa Mayer, Google's product manager. Excerpt: 'While Google Local may be an important new product for Google, it's dwarfed in long-term importance for Mayer by one of the company's other projects: Google Print. The company is starting to digitize books, with ambitious goals. "Google Print is our moon shot," Mayer said. "It will take lots of manpower, but in the end you may have every published book available for full-text search. Think about the number of searches you would do online, if you knew that everything ever printed was searchable. It will take decades of work, but it's really exciting." '
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/11/2005 11:58:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
