Google: All your cultures are belong to us

[mandy]

Stretching its promise to "Do no evil" to near breaking point Google is backing a plan from the Library of Congress to digitise and store the world's culture.

..The "World Digital Library" aims to do the same thing for sundry other nations - the only trouble is that at the moment, like baseball's "World Series", it is an all-American shop..

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/22/...d_library/

Google Inc. has agreed to be the first donor, with $3 million, in a public-private partnership to fund this initiative. The Library of Congress will seek other philanthropic contributors to assist in this important effort to harness technology to bring scattered primary materials of the varied cultures into consolidated Web sites for each culture. Such a project would be created primarily with and by the people of the respective regions. But because the Internet is by definition international, and because cultural materials have a special human appeal that transcends politics, there is enormous potential for increasing transcultural understanding.

full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...01234.html

related topic: Google faces massive copyright suit  http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...472.0.html

[mandy]

Another article on this topic:

Do Google's ambitions know no bounds? The latest front in the search site's bid for world domination is a project to put the world's cultural memory online. This essentially involves creating digital copies of everything held in national libraries and publishing them on the net...

Google is at root just a brilliant con trick. You persuade people to give you their work for free and then you steal their income as well. It should beware the backlash

full article: http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/...technology