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Google Books

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DeveloperGoogle
Operating systemAny (web based application)
TypeOnline Library Book Search
Websitebooks.google.com

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Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition, and stored in its digital database. The service was formerly known as Google Print when it was introduced at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2004. Google's Library Project, also now known as Google Book Search, was announced in December 2004.

Results from Google Book Search show up in both general web search at google.com and through the dedicated Google Books site (books.google.com). Up to three results from the Google Books index may be displayed, if relevant, above other search results in the Google Web search service (google.com).

Subscribing users can click on a result from Google Books that opens an interface in which the user may view pages from the book, if out of copyright or if the copyright owner has given permission. Books in the public domain are available in "full view" and free for download. For in print books, Google limits the number of viewable pages through a variety of access limitations and security measures, some based on user-tracking. For books that may be covered by copyright and where the owner has not been identified, only "snippets" (two to three lines of text) are shown, though the full text of the book is searchable.

Content-related advertisements appear alongside search results but not next to previewed books. The site provides links to the publisher's website and booksellers.

The Google Books database continues to grow. For users outside the United States, though, Google must be sure that the work in question is indeed out of copyright under local laws. According to a member of the Google Books Support Team, "Since whether a book is in the public domain can often be a tricky legal question, we err on the side of caution and display at most a few snippets until we have determined that the book has entered the public domain." Users outside the United States can however access a large number of public domain books scanned by Google using copies stored on the Internet Archive.

Many of the books are scanned using the Elphel 323 camera at a rate of 1,000 pages per hour.

The initiative has been hailed for its potential to offer unprecedented access to what may become the largest online corpus of human knowledge and promoting the democratization of knowledge, but it has also been criticized for potential copyright violations.

In 2010 Google estimated that there are 130 million unique books in the world.

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Google's 130m book count - and ours - The Guardian (blog) Tweet this news
The Guardian (blog)--On the -Google Books- blog, "software engineer" Leonid Taycher goes into gnarly detail about how they've arrived at it, beginning with the question "what is a ... - Date : Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:10:12 GMT+00:00
Apple and Google go head-to-head in mobile advertising - Bigmouthmedia News Tweet this news
Bigmouthmedia News--Positing a scenario in which a mobile user is reading a -book- review in a café, Carrington explained: "The accompanying ad will understand its context. ... - Date : Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:34:28 GMT+00:00
Barnes & Noble on the block - Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal Tweet this news
Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal--Borders Group Inc., the nation's second largest bookstore chain as measured by revenue, jumped into the e--book- business earlier this year, and -Google- Inc. ... - Date : Mon, 09 Aug 2010 07:35:04 GMT+00:00
College Libraries Saying Buh-Bye to Books? - msnbc.com Tweet this news
msnbc.com---...- bear in mind that it stands to collect referral fees for related publisher and bookseller links on each volume in its -Google Books- library. ... - Date : Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:08:54 GMT+00:00
Google Imposes Product Feed Requirements for Books, Media, Electronics - Auctionbytes Tweet this news
Auctionbytes--If you are an online seller of -books-, media or electronics, pay attention! -Google- is imposing new requirements for merchants sending feeds to ... - Date : Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:11:36 GMT+00:00
Twitter hires Obama administration's Katie Stanton - Los Angeles Times Tweet this news
Los Angeles Times--Tim O'Reilly, founder of O'Reilly Media, a company that publishes magazines and -books- and hosts events, held an exposition in Washington this spring to ... - Date : Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:02:59 GMT+00:00
Custom Google search pages - Stuff Middle East (blog) Tweet this news
Stuff Middle East (blog)--As we reported earlier in the week, -Google- have taken a leaf out of Bing's -book- and started testing customizable search pages. It seems the feature has now ... - Date : Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:20:19 GMT+00:00
Beyond hyperlinks: Whither books? - Kansas City Star Tweet this news
Kansas City Star--"The Shallows" is an extension of Carr's article, "Is -Google- Making Us Stupid?" which ran in The Atlantic, and he has sharpened and deepened his arguments. ... - Date : Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:27:19 GMT+00:00
HDA, Inc. Adding House Plan Titles to Google Books - PR Web (press release) Tweet this news
PR Web (press release)--Leading home plan publisher, HDA, Inc. is now adding best-selling home plan titles from their extensive collection to Google's search engine, -Google Books-. ... - Date : Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:23:13 GMT+00:00
Google Celebrates Cousteau's Birthday in the US, World Cup Everywhere Else - Mashable (blog) Tweet this news
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