I love it! That’s pretty much right. But, of course, incomplete. I don’t think search algorithms work too well. They are just better than what came before. If the goal is rich information easily accessible, Google has a long way to go. Its efforts to improve search skew toward customization (with all the privacy concerns attached) rather than comprehensiveness or appropriateness.

As far as the book search, yeah. I wish it worked as well as the Web search. But it cannot. Books do not contain links.

That said, the problem with both is the opacity of these services, one of which involves a massive donation of wealth from public institutions to a private corporation.

But I get your larger point. And I will take it seriously. Thanks!

Siva