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This is a fictitious article about Google in the year 2009. It's based on the believe that RDF (Resource Description Format) will be widely used by then. This could enable Google to become a global marketplace and beat eBay and Amazon at it.
All we do is search
from [redherring.com...]
But "searching" can be a very wide subject..certainly after an IPO.
Call it "we help you search for what others deliver, at a commission"
[answers.google.com...] is a beginning.
Personally I find these options fascinating.
One service I would applaud is a universal and complete search for (scientific) articles within a Google tab, where I can get the found article delivered by PDF format within seconds at a price which is never above the original price of the single magazine the article was published in. I know bits and pieces of these services exist, but not with a good search module, not with that speed, not with that price and not from a database containing all known publications.
But this is something that probably belongs in this thread: ;)
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Then Google could build an entirely separate full-text index of academic research, with all kinds of fancy search and citation tracking tools.
[edited by: danny at 12:58 pm (utc) on July 28, 2002]
Although eBay is profitable - only Amazon and Google really have my respect as Internet powerhouses.
eBay got lucky - sort of like yahoo, except you pretty much have to use ebay for auctions...
Google should convince publishers that having the full content of articles spidered, means they can be better and more frequently found. It does not mean that the full text article is freely available to everyone (just the snippet or the resumé). Publishers could make a tremendous amount of money it they confided their trust (and made the articles at reasonable price available) to something like such a Google service.
FAST is touching this subject with [scirus.com...]
Lexis Nexus and Blackwells and the major academic publihers and agents make massive amounts of money for publishing research that is in most part paid for by governments through universities.
The Net is a major threat to their middle man status, but we aint seeing it yet!
This thread should probably be in foo, but Google might well have a role in forthcoming upheavals... they came out of academia, remember!
2009? (in the first article) Must have been a typo, he meant 2006.
