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(Unverified)Sep 7th 2006 8:41PM

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Don't worry, it won't take long before more and more publishers and content owners switch from the complicated, unwieldy database search engines used by Lexis Nexis and the like to the far more easily used Google method, and provide fulltext of their content funded by something like Google AdWords or some premium model as yet undreamed of.

Honestly, I worked at the Reference desk of a major university library for long enough to see that the big database vendors are going to get eaten alive by Google, and researchers everywhere will benefit from this. I've watched experienced librarians wring their hands and slap their foreheads in frustration at the arcane methods needed to search these databases, each vendor trying to reinvent the wheel and thus complicating what we have to teach students and researchers.

THIS is a step towards a much brighter, better researched future in my opinion.

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