Google to scan books from big libraries
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Taking a trip to the library may take little more than a computer&#39;s Web browser. Working with major libraries, Google is hoping to scan millions of books and periodicals into its popular
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Search engine Google has plans to introduce a new service that lets users search complete texts of books and helps publishers sell them.
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Google is adding the books and papers owned by some of the world&#39;s leading libraries to its database in the latest step of its mission to make every piece of information available online.
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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 Yahoo!
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Live Search Books rivals Google Book Search, but limits selection.
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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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Search engine giant Google is going to make it easy for book lovers to search though pages of books online and read a few pages too.
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(InfoWorld) - Spain's venerable Universidad Complutense de Madrid has joined Google Inc.'s Books Library Project, a controversial initiative that has Google in court facing allegations of copyright violation. In an apparent attempt to sidestep the nasty copyright controversy surrounding the program, the Spanish library will make available for scanning only books that are in the public domain. The Complutense's library, the largest of any university in Spain, is the first in the program whose collection consists primarily of books in Spanish, Google announced Tuesday. Google will scan hundreds of thousands of the library's books, all of which will be available for viewing and downloading in their entirety, because copyright restrictions don't apply to them. The digital copies of the books will be available via Google's book search engine (http://books.google.com). The university will also receive digital copies of the scanned works. Others participating in the Google Library Project are the University of Oxford, University of California, University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University and the New York Public Library. A pilot project with the U.S. Library of Congress is also underway. The Association of American Publishers (AAP) last year sued Google on behalf of five of its members, alleging massive copyright infringement in the project. The Authors Guild Inc. and three authors also sued Google for the same reason last year. The AAP and the Authors Guild both allege Google needs permission from copyright holders before scanning in-copyright books it obtains from the libraries. Google maintains its activities are legal because it only displays short text excerpts and bibliographic information for in-copyright books. The AAP and the Authors Guild counter that making a digital copy of an in-copyright book without permission from the copyright holder is infringement. They also object to Google's storage of these copies on its servers to make their text searchable. A Google spokeswoman couldn't immediately recall if other libraries, like the Complutense's, are refraining from lending Google in-copyright works for scanning. Â
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Firing a shot over Adobe's bow, Google on Wednesday launched a Web-based application for reading books digitized by the company's Book Search project. Like Google Maps and Gmail, the interactive tool works directly in a Web browser and supports zooming as well as a fullscreen mode.
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Google Inc. 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's greatest libraries to put their books in your living room.
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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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In a move likely to have major ramifications for the library world, Google announced December 14 that it would embark on an ambitious project to digitally scan books from the collections of five major research libraries and make them searchable online.
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Google is adding the text of books to its searchable database, furthering its bold mission &quot;to organize the world&#39;s information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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Google announced an agreement Tuesday with Oxford University and some of the leading US research libraries to begin converting their holdings into files that would be freely searchable over the Web.
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As part of its effort to make offline information searchable online, Google has announced that it is working with the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the University of Oxford as well as The New York Public Library to
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Google announced yesterday that they have agreements with several large libraries to scan books whose copyrights have expired. Joseph O&#39;Sullivan, Software engineer and Adam M. Smith, Business product manager
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Google is launching a new service to make books and other printed materials searchable online, the Internet search engine company said Wednesday.