garyp
08-11-2004, 03:22 PM
Digitize and conquer
San Jose Mercury News
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/9370514.htm
Brewster Kahle, founder of The Internet Archive, talks storage, digitization and The Wayback Machine.
Driving Kahle is the conviction that the world's information is a common good.
In that spirit, he also has asked Google to furnish him with a copy of its database, say with a six-month delay so Google's competitiveness doesn't suffer.
Google has yet to grant his request. But Kahle hopes the company will come around, especially in light of its claim that it wants to have a positive impact on the world. A Google spokeswoman declined to comment.
He learned a tough lesson when search engine Infoseek initially agreed to give him a copy of its database. When Infoseek went bankrupt, though, the lawyers didn't follow through. So Kahle is adamant that Google should act soon.
``Let's give it to others,'' he says.
San Jose Mercury News
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/9370514.htm
Brewster Kahle, founder of The Internet Archive, talks storage, digitization and The Wayback Machine.
Driving Kahle is the conviction that the world's information is a common good.
In that spirit, he also has asked Google to furnish him with a copy of its database, say with a six-month delay so Google's competitiveness doesn't suffer.
Google has yet to grant his request. But Kahle hopes the company will come around, especially in light of its claim that it wants to have a positive impact on the world. A Google spokeswoman declined to comment.
He learned a tough lesson when search engine Infoseek initially agreed to give him a copy of its database. When Infoseek went bankrupt, though, the lawyers didn't follow through. So Kahle is adamant that Google should act soon.
``Let's give it to others,'' he says.