Five top libraries join Google Print revolution
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Book collections from five of the world&#39;s top libraries are to be made available on the internet by Google. The Oxford University library, the New York Public Library and three big US university libraries
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The newest addition to the Google Book Search Project, which aims to index the world&#8217;s books, is Tokyo&#8217;s Keio University and its library of over 120,000 books, all in Japanese. &#8220;The Google project allows us to make our collections visible worldwide, allowing us to contribute to research and education on a global scale. Our university was [...]
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Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have unveiled Google Print, a tech service that will let users view book excerpts in the standard Google Web-page search results.
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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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including out of print volumes -- soon will become part of the vast Google database. Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, and the New
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Books from some of the world&#39;s largest academic libraries are to be scanned and made instantly searchable by Google. The internet search engine has revealed plans to scan the whole of Michigan and Stanford
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By Steve Lawson  STAYING with search engines, the daddy of them all, Google, are offering users the chance to download and print off classic novels, free of charge.
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Search engine Google plans to offer consumers the chance to download and print classic novels free of charge.
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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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Put off by restrictions Google and Microsoft want to place on new digital collections, several major libraries are instead signing on with a group that aims to make the materials broadly available.
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Said one participant in the project, &quot;This is the day the world changes,&quot; and you have to grant that he is on to something: Google&#39;s plan to put the contents of five major libraries
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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.
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US search engine Google.com launches a new search service, Google Print, Wednesday (Oct. 6). The service will allow users to search books and help publishers promote their books online for free.
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Google Inc. said on Tuesday it would digitize some of the world&#39;s most important libraries in a bold effort that could profit the company by attracting more viewers to its site -- and its ads.
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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 Inc. is expanding its territory from bytes to books. The world's largest Internet search engine said yesterday it will soon begin a program to index books and bound periodicals in the libraries of Harvard University.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Google is trying to create an online reading room for five major libraries by scanning stacks of hard-to-find books into its Internet search engine.