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# Google: The world's digital library?
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/google-the-worlds-digital-library/
- Published: 2005-01-16T16:32:44.000Z
- Updated: 2005-01-16T16:32:44.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Institutions, Systems

Today’s NYT has an article on Apple’s recent announcements. [Randall Stross](https://randallstross.com/?ref=lorcandempsey.net), the author, notes in passing:

> Google has a near monopoly on the digital library business, which enables it to do very well with advertizing that monetizes eyeballs.\[[May require registration: Digital Domain: After 20 Years, Finally Capitalizing on Cool](https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/16/business/yourmoney/16digi.html?oref=login&ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]

The choice of words is interesting … and worrying 😉  
When the Google/Library digitization plans were announced I was interested in the volume of publicity they attracted. And in the fact that very little of the publicity remarked on the prior strides of libraries into the digital space …