Careful What you write

I was discussing with one of my customers who develops education books for publishing about the possible impact that Google will have if they are allowed to get away with there proposal of making available all books on line free.
So if you wanted James Bond Goldfinger. You would go to Google type in James Bond Goldfinger book and up it comes free of charge for you to read. This would, you would think infringes, copyright laws but Googles excuses is it would be for educational purposes only. Therefore not infringing copyright. Just think you have written a book which has taken you months to research and the day it is published Google scans it in and lets people have for nothing. Anyway I believe its going to court to see if Google has the right to do this.

We also talked about what is written on the Internet generally and one of the interesting scenarios was the following. Lets suppose you are a 15 year old writing on  a web page and decide to criticize a company about there way of doing business. Then lets say 10 years later he applied for a job with that company. The company looks him up on the Internet and Bingo up pops what he had written about them 10 years earlier. Consequently the company don’t like this and so he doesn’t get the job.
I guess on blogs it may not look so bad as Blogs are generally dated but if the web page where the words are written is not dated then whose is to say when it was written.
In other words be careful what you say today as it may come back in years to come and bite you where you do not want to be bitten.

So the British inventor has done it again. A Mr Wolfram Alpha has come up with a new search engine that according to experts will give Google a run for there money.
His idea that he has developed into a full working search engine People can use the system to look up simple facts – such as the height of Mount Everest – or crunch several data sets together to produce new results, such as a country’s GDP.  Read more here