Wednesday, December 22, 2004
Google Print restricting results for UK IP addresses
Aaron Swartz did a thorough review of the updated Google Print / Google Library service, which he helpfully peppered with deep links. However, when I tried out the links, the page it took me to was basically empty - it certainly did not show the data Aaron was trying to link to.
It appears that this behaviour is due to the fact that I am UK based, so Google detects my geolocation, and "censors" the results - presumably because they have not sorted out the copyright issues, where UK and US copyright laws differ.
One way around this is to get a US based proxy server to access the page for me - and it so happens that Google have such a service in the form of their translation service.
Thus a direct link to Darwin and After Darwin gives the result "Your search - - did not match any documents." whereas a link proxied via the translate service shows the scanned pages.
Can anyone confirm if they see the same restrictions to the results from other geolocations?
It appears that this behaviour is due to the fact that I am UK based, so Google detects my geolocation, and "censors" the results - presumably because they have not sorted out the copyright issues, where UK and US copyright laws differ.
One way around this is to get a US based proxy server to access the page for me - and it so happens that Google have such a service in the form of their translation service.
Thus a direct link to Darwin and After Darwin gives the result "Your search - - did not match any documents." whereas a link proxied via the translate service shows the scanned pages.
Can anyone confirm if they see the same restrictions to the results from other geolocations?
# posted by zmarties @ 12/22/2004 09:59:00 am 
