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Google Book Settlement News 12/1/2010

The Open Book Alliance has a new post outlining an EU investigation into the Google Book Settlement. From the post:

The Commission will investigate whether Google has abused a dominant market position in online search by allegedly lowering the ranking of unpaid search results of competing services which are specialized in providing users with specific online content such as price comparisons (so-called vertical search services)…

Public Domain Books on in Snippet View on Google Books

Search Engine Roundtable points out this thread on Google’s forums in which complaints are surfacing about public domain books being mostly closed.