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Steve Rubel Hacks Google Book Search?

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Steve Rubel, best known for his blogs on integrating technology into public relations, may have stumbled upon something interesting. In a recent blog post by Rubel, he claims to be on to something. So overall, unless I've missed something, there's no "hole" that you've "hacked" here, and that's something you would have known if you'd bothered to actually check with Google about it before publishing. And if it really were a hack that, as you say in your comments you think should be closed, then doubly so to contact them first. At worst, someone else might publish the hack before you. But since you were already in contact with Google before that, you'd be able to come back that you knew about the hack plus would have a comment from Google to go along with it. At best, you discovered the hack, got Google to close it and score your PR coup without some of the negative reaction you see above. But like I said, there's no hack I'm seeing here. John Stith is a staff writer for murdok covering technology and business.

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