On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 18:53, Mike Taylor <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > One reason persistent IDs are better than persistent URLs is that you > can Google them. You see this with DOIs: it's true that there is a > well-known resolution service that you can use for DOIs if you're so > inclined, but actually a simple web-search for, say, 10.1144/SP343.22 > will get you what you need. Same for ISBNs. > Chalk this up to Devil's advocacy, but are URLs not Googleable? http://www.google.com/search?q=http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june05/jantz/06jantz.html got me what I needed. -Mike