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Byline: Mark Chillingworth

Wiki's rise sends Sage to Google

Mark Chillingworth

Academic publisher Sage is looking to strike up a relationship with search engine giant Google in its efforts to fight off the increasing influence of Wikipedia.

Sage vice-president Rolf Janke admitted to IWR that publishers would never be able to "completely adapt to users' behaviour. There are cases where we will adapt and be more flexible as a defence mechanism to stay in business."

Janke outlined how the company was looking to work with Google to provide 100-word abstracts of the entries within its own reference service, Sage eReference. Like wiki sites, eReference has a search engine at its heart, but, like a book, also offers an index for finding entries.

Janke said the company was assessing business models.

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