Apologies in advance if you receive two copies of this mail it is being cross posted to chemweb <-> CHMINF-L "Adam Hodgkin" <adamgh@dial.pipex.com> wrote
There is a very interesting new search engine on the block. Try www.google.com
My comments are not purely related to the www.google.com site, which incidentally was added to the "Links for Chemists: Search Engines" section back in January.... http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/search.html http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/jan99.html but having been reminded about the site, I went back for another look. I used "Links for Chemists" as the search term and was quite happy with the output, until I got to the 10th link http://pet1.chem.ucsb.edu/pharmac.html which appeared to be quite similar to our page at Liverpool... hmmmm. http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/pharmac.html This is the seventh such incident in recent months where there have been violations of our copyright, the owner of the offending page has been asked (nicely!) to remove it. I noticed that WebElements includes a small, but well buried, list of copyright violators, presumably to shame people into removing them? http://www.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/chemdex/chem-periodic-tables.html It seems obvious that the more popular a chemistry site becomes, the more people emerge that are either a) merely ignorant of copyright law (not an excuse in itself) or b) willing to flout copyright law, confident that they won't be detected Meta-search sites like google.com give the authors of sites such as ours, a fighting chance of locating any copytright violations out there. In that respect, I have to agree, google.com is already proving to be a valuable tool. Regards, Michael Barker -- *------------------------------------------------------------* | Michael H. Barker GRSC The University of Liverpool | | Department of Chemistry | | Tel: +44 151 794 2274 Oxford Street | | Fax: +44 151 794 3588 Liverpool | | L69 7ZD | | E-mail: mhbarker@liv.ac.uk United Kingdom | | | | "Links for Chemists" | | http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/links.html | *------------------------------------------------------------* chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)