{"id":6252,"date":"2009-12-16T23:59:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T04:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=6252"},"modified":"2009-12-17T00:28:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T05:28:29","slug":"when-google-said-that-they-wanted-all-the-worlds-knowledge-online-this-wasnt-what-i-had-in-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=6252","title":{"rendered":"When Google Said That They Wanted All the World&#8217;s Knowledge Online, This Wasn&#8217;t What I Had In Mind."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=_PQDAAAAMBAJ&amp;source=gbs_all_issues_r&amp;cad=1\"  target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6251\" title=\"1-2-90\" src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/1-2-90.jpg\" alt=\"1-2-90\" width=\"500\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/1-2-90.jpg 686w, http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/1-2-90-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With their Google Books service, the world&#8217;s dominant search engine is making the contents of everything from <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=_zcEAAAAMBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;as_pt=MAGAZINES\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>Arts &amp; Crafts Homes and the Revival<\/em><\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=hCsEAAAAMBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;lr=&amp;as_pt=MAGAZINES\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>Texas Monthly<\/em><\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=qiYEAAAAMBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;lr=&amp;as_pt=MAGAZINES\"  target=\"_blank\">VIBE<\/a> available through anyone&#8217;s computer.<\/p>\n<p>But this is the motherlode, friends: <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=5vQDAAAAMBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;lr=&amp;as_pt=MAGAZINES\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>Weekly World News<\/em><\/a>, the self-proclaimed &#8220;world&#8217;s only reliable news source since 1979.&#8221; (Google&#8217;s archives go back to 1980.)<\/p>\n<p>Can you believe it? That&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=_PQDAAAAMBAJ&amp;source=gbs_all_issues_r&amp;cad=1\"  target=\"_blank\">the January 2, 1990<\/a> cover, above, courtesy of <em>Media Assassin<\/em>, complete with nutty Xmas messages and puerile racism. &#8220;Baboon boy&#8221;? It get&#8217;s no worse, people. It gets no better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With their Google Books service, the world&#8217;s dominant search engine is making the contents of everything from Arts &amp; Crafts Homes and the Revival to Texas Monthly to VIBE available through anyone&#8217;s computer. But this is the motherlode, friends: Weekly World News, the self-proclaimed &#8220;world&#8217;s only reliable news source since 1979.&#8221; (Google&#8217;s archives go back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,55,14,15,8,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6252"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6256,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions\/6256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}