Google Steams Forward with Book Search Effort

Nov 1, 2005 - 8:27 am 0 by
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Just featured at WebmasterWorld this morning, Google Restarts Controversial Book Digitizing Plan.

Google is resuming its controversial project to digitise millions of books and make them searchable on the net.

Google is pumping $200m (£110m) into creating a digital archive of millions of books from four top US libraries - the libraries of Stanford, Michigan and Harvard universities, and of the New York Public Library - by 2015.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

 

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