Google to put library books online
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WASHINGTON - Google wants to save you a trip to the library. The search engine that revolutionized how people use the internet has teamed up with some of the world&#39;s greatest libraries to put their books in your living room.
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Google is planning to announce an agreement Tuesday with some of the nation&#39;s top libraries and Oxford University to start converting their holdings into digital files.
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Google on Wednesday began offering full downloads of out-of-copyright books in PDF format, enabling users to read at their own pace or use an ebook device. Currently being offered are a handful of classics and obscure titles in the public domain.
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[Technology India]: Washington, Dec 15 :Google, one of the largest internet search engines, will soon start a service for gathering Books from some of the world&#39;s largest academic libraries, scan them and make them instantly searchable by their website.
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In the wake of fallout over a Microsoft attorney's public comments yesterday, chastising arch-rival Google for an effort he said would undermine the rights of copyright holders worldwide, the Bavarian State Library has signed a pact with Google Book Search that will enable the search provider to index and publish online a major portion of its holdings.
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Complutense University in Madrid has signed an agreement with Google to enable the search giant to scan its library of 3 million works, becoming the first non-english library to join the Google Book Project. Spanish-language books including those from Cervantes and Sor Juana Ines will be digitized.
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Google, the world&#39;s top search engine, is all set to offer books from five famous libraries online, unlocking a fabulous treasure of information.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. is trying to establish an online reading room for five major libraries by scanning stacks of hard-to-find books into its widely used Internet search engine.
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Google reached agreements with several major research libraries to digitize the content of thousands of books in their archives, adding momentum to the search giant&#39;s effort to catalog vast amounts of offline information in addition to Web pages, the
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Google today began allowing users to download and print books in PDF format in an expansion of its controversial book search project.
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Web search leader Google Inc.  said late on Monday it is working on a project to digitally  scan the collections at five libraries and will make the pages  available to Google users over the coming years.
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Google Inc., the most-used Web-search service, will scan books and documents from four universities and the New York Public Library, offering access to material unavailable on competitors Yahoo!
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Google, the world&#39;s most popular search engine plans to transform the trip to the library into a trip to the nearest computer.
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Moves by Internet search giant Google to create a global virtual library could signal a communications revolution on a par with Johann Gutenberg and the invention of moveable type in the 15th century.
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Google Inc., a web-search serviceâs leader, will offer books and documents online from four universities and the New York Public Library.
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Google is launching an ambitious effort to make digital copies of some of the world's largest university library collections and will incorporate the texts into its vast Web index, apparently the largest project of its kind ever attempted.
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Google made classic literary works available for free download in printable format on Wednesday as part of its controversial quest to make the world's books available online.