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FYI, here's the Google Books landing page: http://books.google.com/bkshp?hl=en&tab=wp&authuser=0&ei=EfyEUvv2Fqv54AOH6IDACQ&ved=0CBAQqS4oDQ http://books.google.c
by Touche 13y ago
FYI, here's the Google Books landing page: http://books.google.com/bkshp?hl=en&tab=wp&authuser=0&ei=EfyEUvv2Fqv54AOH6IDACQ&ved=0CBAQqS4oDQ http://books.google.com/bkshp?hl=en&tab=wp&authuser=0&ei=Efy...
What was once a nobel effort to index old books has turned into a front for the Google Play Store. Sad.
- eliben 13y agoI don't get it. I often search for technical information and get to stuff indexed from within books on books.google.com - that's really awesome, and I'm not sure what you find sad here?
- pyre 13y agoThe parent is sad that Google Play is on the front page of books.google.com, and Google's 'noble effort' is now linked to their commercial Google Play product. This is silly though. Google has their "book search" product and their "buy books through Google Play" product. It's reasonable to assume that some people might end up at books.google.com when looking for the Google Play books section.
- JaggedJax 13y agoI don't see anything particularly wrong with that landing page. They have separated the two and if you do a search, you don't get any Play results. Seeing as they have two products related to books, it makes sense to list them both at books.google.com
- dannyr 13y agoIt gives you to buy books or search for books. What's wrong with it?
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- Touche 13y agoIt's like having a library run by a book retailer, with advertisements inside the library.