Google, Others Strive to Enrich Web with Books
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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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Leading Web search engine Google launched a new site for book lovers at the world's largest publishing show that will provide a new avenue for sales.
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Internet search giant Google, quiet since going public in August, introduced a feature Wednesday that lets users search through pages of books online. Google is taking aim at online retailer Amazon.com, which offers similar technology on its e-commerce site.
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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 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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The search company throws some downloading capabilities into digitized books.
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Online search leader Google Inc. is becoming more bookish. Expanding a program introduced last year, Google is inviting publishers to include entire books in its index, enabling people to peak at the contents before making a decision on whether to buy.
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Google's Knol project aims to make online information easier to find and more authoritative.
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By Ojala, Marydee  Before there were online and the Internet, libraries connoted books to most people. Yet books are one of the more overlooked research resources in an electronic-information environment.
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Yahoo and Amazon have rebuffed Google's attempt to get to know them -- not that it was a friendly overture. Google, well known for its wish to index the world's information, was sued by the Authors Guild and sundry publishers over Google Book Search, which scans books so Google users can search their content.
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Researching things on the web is an essential part of everyday business - but too often books and other printed sources get left behind.
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Google is developing an online publishing platform where people can write entries on subjects they know, an idea that's close to Wikipedia's user-contributed encyclopedia but with key differences.
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Google has announced a long-term project to put 15 million books from seven of the world&#39;s top libraries online. The libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, the New York Public Library
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Nearly doubling the educational institutions participating in its massive effort to digitize the world's books, Google said Wednesday that another twelve universities have joined Google Book Search. In total, they will contribute up to 10 million volumes to be scanned.
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Google Inc. GOOG.O unveiled on   Wednesday a Web site dedicated to literacy, pulling together   its books, video, mapping and blogging services to help   teachers and educational organizations share reading resources.
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Google Inc., the leader in online search engines, is setting out to make better sense of all the scholarly work stored on the Web.
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Google Inc. unveiled on Wednesday a Web site dedicated to literacy, pulling together its books, video, mapping and blogging services to help teachers and educational organizations share reading resources.