Interestingly, the survey sponsor is OCLC, a library services organization best known for its worldwide catalog which helps libraries make their holdings more searchable and available to patrons. The Engines win by a landslide, at least according...
I went to a book and clicked on the Find this book in a library, which takes you to the OCLC Worldcat. Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we've spotted but not blogged separately:
I went to a book and clicked on the Find this book in a library, which takes you to the OCLC Worldcat. The Google Book Search blog announced a feature named "Find this book in a library. How does it work?
Google says that clicking on the "Find it in a Library" link will send you to the OCLC Worldcat. At OCLC you can enter your zip code and find a local library that has the book you search for. The Google Blog announced that they added a link to some...
Yahoo also has co-branded versions of their toolbar available from OCLC and Intercontinental Hotels. News from Corel that the Yahoo Toolbar is now being embedded directly into their just released Corel WordPerfect Office X3.
Today I want to focus on another service called NetLibrary (a division of OCLC) that has been around for several years. NetLibrary and The Online Books Page are two excellent services for searching for and reading online books, offering access free...
NetLibrary: Over 100,000 Digitized and Searchable Books Available Online - NetLibrary (a division of OCLC) that has been around for several years and just last week passed a milestone, they've now digitized more than 100,000 titles (mostly new...
This week, a look at another service called NetLibrary (a division of OCLC) that has been around for several years and just last week passed a milestone, they've now digitized more than 100,000 titles (mostly new content).
The OCLC Worldcat deal is an example. I think the most telling thing about Google Base for me will not be today, tomorrow, or even next month but five or six months from now, when we can see what kind of content is being added, how much content is...
Breaking Down The Google Print 5 Libraries - If you're interested in learning about the print book collections of the five libraries Google plans to scan/digitize (assuming all goes as planned), a new article in Digital Libraries: "Anatomy of...
If you're interested in learning about the print book collections of the five libraries Google plans to scan/digitize (assuming all goes as planned), a new article in Digital Libraries: Anatomy of Aggregate Collections, uses data from OCLC's...
Postscript: The article notes that Google provides access to bilbiographic records from OCLC's Worldcat. Mike Bazeley's article: Diving deep into the Web, profiles a Bay Area start-up named Glenbrook Networks that is developing technology to crawl...
You'll also read about OCLC's Open Worldcat program that provides bibliographic records for millions of items and makes them accessible to Yahoo and Google's crawlers. Although the Google Library program has grabbed most of the headlines since it...
On results pages you'll find links labeled, "Web Search" (run the title in the Google web database) and "Library Search" (books only, determine if a book is available via OCLC Worldcat). I just noticed a couple of new items listed on Google Scholar...
OCLC Web Characterization Project http://wcp.oclc.org/ Not necessarily. However, a large index can help those who seek unusual or hard-to-find information. Consequently, when you seek the obscure, consider using a search engine with a large index.
OCLC also has an authority file. Word from business search vertical, Business.com that they've added people search to their site. The data comes from Eliyon, who crawl primarily the open web (caveats about data quality, of course) and AI to build...
Books that are scanned from either library's collection will also have a direct link to find the book in a local library (along with links to purchase the book) using OCLC Open Worldcat data. Google is working closely with five new content partners...
About three weeks ago, Yahoo announced a co-branded version of their toolbar with library database provider, OCLC. We mentioned a few weeks ago that the Yahoo Toolbar would be available with downloads of the Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Via the Yahoo Search Blog, news that a special version of the Yahoo Toolbar now allows you to search across two million library holdings through a cooperative project with OCLC, the Online OCLC Launches Co-Branded Toolbar with Yahoo has thoughts...
This Boulder, Colorado company (part of OCLC) has been around since 1998 and offers their service to thousands of libraries around the globe. Well, Google Print for books is here. Amazon's "Search Inside the Book" has been around for a while.
