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Wednesday, November 9, 2005 12:00 AM

Throwing Google at the book

Google's new search engine of books puts a world of knowledge at our fingertips. Publishers say the Internet giant is robbing them of their rightful fees. Maybe it's time to call copyright laws history.
By Farhad Manjoo

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  • Wednesday, November 9, 2005 10:23 AM

    Yeah, it's probably suck

    Quentin, thanks for pointing that out -- I wondered for a while about whether that was the S word or the F word, which is why I allowed for both possibilities in my story. But yeah, I lean toward it being "suck."

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