Is Google the Competition?

摘要

Librarians, publishers, and aggregators alike often call Google their main competitor. Google, or similar web z search engines, is the information finding f tool of first choice for many users-far ahead of proprietary online services or libraries and light years ahead of print r sources. The 2004 annual meeting of NFAIS (National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services) asked who would win the "battle for mindshare" in the year 2010. Will libraries, A&I (abstracting and indexing) services, and traditional publishers still exist, or will Google become the only information resource?