Google to begin indexing books
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If you want to hit the books online - you can point your Internet browser to hit the online search engine Google. The site is inviting publishers to include entire books in its index.
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(InfoWorld) - Google is making its controversial Book Search engine available to publishers interested in putting it on their Web sites. This is the first time Google's Book Search service has been available outside of its main site in the Google.com domain. This co-branded search program benefits Google because the search engine will now be available more broadly. Meanwhile, publishers benefit by offering an additional search service to their Web site visitors. Publishers can tailor the index of their search engine so that only books published by them show up in the query results, Google said Friday. As in the main Book Search site, these result pages give users the option to link to online shops that sell the listed books. Interestingly, one of the publishers that put Book Search on its Web site is The McGraw-Hill Companies. Along with other major publishers, McGraw-Hill is suing Google for copyright infringement over Google's ongoing project to scan millions of copyright books without permission. Although McGraw-Hill's position may seem at first contradictory, it stems from the fact that Google's Book Search service has two main pieces. One focuses on securing formal partnerships with publishers, obtaining their permission to scan books and giving them control over how much of those books can be displayed by Google for free. McGraw-Hill is one of about 10,000 publishers that participate in this partner program with Google that have collectively made available about 1 million titles for scanning so far, said Tom Turvey, director of Google Book Search partnerships. About 50 publishers have embedded Book Search in their sites already, and many more are in line to do so, Turvey said. McGraw-Hill didn't immediately reply to a request for comment. Simultaneously, McGraw-Hill objects to the other portion of the Book Search operation, in which Google partners with major academic libraries to scan large portions of their collections. Those library scanning operations often involve copyrighted books, which Google is digitally copying without obtaining permission from publishers and authors.
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Google has introduced a number of new features to its Google Book Search that allow users to more thoroughly explore and share books and passages online.
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SEARCH ENGINE megagiant Google is to digitise a substantial number of volumes held in the libraries of Harvard and Oxford Universities.
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Google will make the first major business move since its August flotation today when it launches a new search tool that will help publishers to sell books.
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Google Inc. on Wednesday introduced a new search technology to help publishers sell books online, a fast-growing market dominated by Internet retailer Amazon.com.
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The new search tool from Google matches queries with the content inside a book. If there is a match, Google will show links to that particular book in the search-results page.
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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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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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Web search leader Google Inc.  said late on Monday it is working on a project to digitally  scan the collections at seven libraries and will make the pages  available to Google users over the coming years.
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On 14 December 2004, Google announced an agreement with five major libraries - those at Stanford, Harvard, the University of Michigan and Oxford, as well as the New York Public Library â-o create digital copies of books that can be searched using
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The libraries of some of the world's most important academic institutions are to be digitised by Google.
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Publishers and webmasters will be able to specify through a site map the articles they want Google News to index.
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This is welcome news for researchers as their favorite web search engine Google will now scan the entire collections of seven prestigious libraries and make these pages available to Google users.
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Leading web search engine Google launched a new site for book lovers at the world&#39;s largest publishing show on Thursday that will provide a new avenue for sales.
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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 seven 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!