Bei Inside Higher Ed berichtet Scott Jaschik vom Symposion «Is Google Good for History?», das die American Historical Association abhielt. Bei aller Kritik habe das «Ja» überwogen. Dan Cohen vom Center for History and New Media (Mason) verteidigte Googles Digitalisierungspläne vehement:

Is Google good for history? Of course it is. (…) It has constructed a deceptively simple way to scan billions of documents instantaneously, and it has spent hundreds of millions of dollars of its own money to allow us to read millions of books in our pajamas. Good? How about Great?

But then we historians, like other humanities scholars, are natural-born critics. And this disposition is unsurprisingly exacerbated when a large company, consisting mostly of better-paid graduates from the other side of campus, muscles into our turf.

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