Comments on: Google’s Watching What We’re Doing — At Least In Aggregate

By: Jonathan Rochkind

Jonathan Rochkind — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:50:24 +0000

I thought I noticed this happening too with a link I had used as an example, but wasn’t sure if I had just gotten confused or what. Thanks for another data point.

By: Friday Link Round Up « ellie <3 libraries

Friday Link Round Up « ellie <3 libraries — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:00:33 +0000

[...] Linking to full text Google books in the catalog [...]

By: the Jester

the Jester — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:17:38 +0000

Caleb — Thomas Dowling copied it from Kent State’s KentLINK. I’m not sure where it originated…

By: caleb

caleb — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:11:25 +0000

so what’s the trickery that makes you able to link the catalog record with the google book?

By: Becky Yoose

Becky Yoose — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:41:47 +0000

RT @DataG: New blog post: Google’s Watching What We’re Doing — At Least In Aggregate http://bit.ly/4DSIV6

By: Feeds we follow

Feeds we follow — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:40:29 +0000

[...] Google’s Watching What We’re Doing — At Least In Aggregate [...]

By: Matt Z. Wood

Matt Z. Wood — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:39:41 +0000

Oh my lord. US Copyright law is even stupider than I thought. As if the “author’s life + 70 years” rule wasn’t restrictive enough.

I bet Sam Clemens is enjoying those fat royalty checks OH WAIT, HE’S BEEN DEAD FOR ALMOST 100 YEARS MY BAD. I know the US likes to pretend that corporations are people, but it’s hard to argue that anyone, much less society as a whole, actually benefits from this foolishness.

By: Suzanne Preate

Suzanne Preate — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:44:30 +0000

RT @infopeep: Murray, Peter: Google’s Watching What We’re Doing — At Least In Aggregate http://bit.ly/tfGO0

By: Conal Tuohy

Conal Tuohy — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:29:33 +0000

I’m running Firefox 3.5 on Windows. My HTTP user agent string is:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

I definitely have Javascript enabled though. When I switched on FireBug (the JS debugger) and stepped through the code, I noticed that it was looking for div elements with class attributes of “gbs”, but there were no such divs in the HTML, and that seems to be why it failed.

I hope that helps.

By: infopeep

infopeep — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:36:02 +0000

Murray, Peter: Google’s Watching What We’re Doing — At Least In Aggregate http://bit.ly/tfGO0