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...
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...
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...
OCLC Opens Up the Complete WorldCat Database to Web Engines and Other Partners looks at how anyone is allowed to crawl the database. Via the Yahoo Search Blog, news that a special version of the Yahoo Toolbar now allows you to search across two...
Yahoo Search Joins OCLC Open WorldCat Project. Gary Flake is Principal Scientist information is not knowledge; knowledge is not wisdom. Today, search engines can give you more data than you'll ever need, and a lot of valuable information as well...
