"…and then they (Google + Powers that be) came for the books"

(Truststream Media Video)

https://www.bitchute.com/video/Z_fGfjZrPfM/

https://anonfiles.com/XdD4Y0i4pb/2020-10-24_And_Then_They_Came_for_the_Books_mp4

"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is not ignorance,

It is the Illusion of Knowledge."

• Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

https://www.chronicle.com/article/googles-book-search-a-disaster-for-scholars/

Google’s Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars

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Google’s five-year head start and its relationships with libraries and publishers give it an effective monopoly: No competitor will be able to come after it on the same scale. Nor is technology going to lower the cost of entry.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/technology/internet/05google.html

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“We did not think necessarily we could make money,” said Sergey Brin, a Google founder and its president of technology, in a brief interview at the company’s headquarters. “We just feel this is part of our core mission. There is fantastic information in books. Often when I do a search, what is in a book is miles ahead of what I find on a Web site.”

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