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• [1] Nick from NYC November 05, 2009 - 12:16PM

  Your guest repeats the commonly made and lazy mistake that via Google you can read "any publication".

  That's just false. Although many full-text resources are online, most (with the exception of pre-1923 public domain publications) are behind subscription walls, or otherwise require you to pay.

  You can get excerpts and snippets, but not real full text.

  
  
• [2] Tigersfan from Brooklyn November 05, 2009 - 12:19PM

  Last night I was helping my son do his homework and he asked me for the square root of 197. My hand held calculator wasn't working and I couldn't figure out how to do square roots on the computer's calculator. My son walked over and typed "square root of 197" into Google and had the answer in two seconds! I would never have thought of doing that.

  
  
• [3] Gene November 05, 2009 - 12:25PM

  Please address the Google book-scanning controversy, specifically the restrictions Google places on libraries' own digital collections.

  
  
• [4] Jonathan from Brooklyn November 05, 2009 - 12:28PM

  Will Mr. Auletta be doing an authors@google talk?

  
  
• [5] Nick from NYC November 05, 2009 - 12:29PM

  Ask your guest about Google's attitude to censorship in China and web search

  
  
• [6] JT from Long Island November 05, 2009 - 12:31PM

  One thing people don't consider with free online software is that at some point the companies have to make money. And at some point, depending on who the investors are, they have to increase revenue. Given the fact that most people ignore the End User License Agreement it's obvious they don't know what they are giving up by using the sites.

  
  
• [7] Cynthia from long island November 05, 2009 - 12:38PM

  Who determines who is an expert?

  
  
• [8] Cynthia from long island November 05, 2009 - 12:40PM

  Social Media sites are terrible places for reviews. A lot of hired publicity people as users on them.

  
  
• [9] Karen from Brooklyn, NY November 05, 2009 - 12:40PM

  You commented earlier on the degraded quality on youtube and google books, which is why I think that publishing with new media does not impact sales in traditional media. That's why I believe that most music downloaders seem to consistently be show as the majority of music buyers.

  
  
• [10] Noah from Brooklyn November 05, 2009 - 12:42PM

  Your guest is not representing Google well in regards to search in China. Google offered search in China after every other search engine was already doing so. The other search engines were and are censoring searches without users having an knowledge of such. Google on the other hand tells users when they are censoring search. Also any Chinese user can go to www.Google.com instead of www.google.cn and get uncensored results.