The agreement will allow Google to digitize and scan books from Hachette's library of copyrighted but out-of-print texts, The New York Times reported. Part of the reason is that Google is unwilling to give U.S.publishers the same deal they gave to...
To get the best results, it's worth following experts or looking for the expertise of your friends - it's a bit like going to your buddy's house and perusing their library or music collection. Blekko's category cites many medical authorities...
Gary Price of ResourceShelf Wins SLA President's Citation Posted by Kevin Heisler Jun 17, 2008 The former news editor of Search Engine Watch just won one of the nation's most prestigious awards granted to library professionals at the annual...
Public Library of Law (pLoL) may be more of a directory than a search engine, even though Fastcase CEO Ed Walters says it makes"first-time legal research as easy as using Google. Fastcase powered "premium legal search" in Google and Yahoo by making...
Looking for a Library on Google Local, SEO By The Sea Google Apps for Your Domain Expands to Include the Start Page for Organizations, Google Press Release Google Video Getting Caption Search; Customizing The Player Worry Over Live Search Listings...
Microsoft Partners With Cornell University Library For Live Book Search Library to their book search initiative. With the help of Kirtas Technologies to digitize up to 2,400 pages per hour, Microsoft and Cornell will be adding many public domain...
World eBook Library still offers links to these works, but you have to pay $9 per year for access to them. Google is now offering free, downloadable versions of public domain books that you can find in Google Book search.
What will it take for Google or another search engine to truly assemble a library of all of the world's information? Kelly spends a lot of time analyzing the current state of copyright laws, and how it poses a major barrier to the creation and...
Leads To Linking, Indexing Dispute: Book publishers upset with Google's library scanning program are just the latest in groups upset with being indexed by search engines. The library had a magical electronic card catalog called
Using Search Engines For Test Taking - The School Library Journal has an article named "Cheating via Google? Library Journal has an interview with Gary Price, of Ask.com and formerly the News Editor of Search Engine Watch.
When people make inquiries using Google's search engine and they come up with references to books, they are just as likely to come to this fine institution to look up those references as they are to buy them," he said, referring to the Public...
New Mashup Combines Public Library Location Info with Google and Yahoo Maps - If you live in the US or Canada you no longer can say you don't know where public libraries in your area or any area for that matter are located.
The New York Public Library and Answers.com Announce New Homework Service Book Digitization: Project Gutenberg Founder Interviewed - Project Gutenberg has been around since 1971 digitizing and copying public domain books.
Tomorrow, the Google Library Project will be one year old. Here's a link to our first SearchDay article about the Google Library Project from December 14, 2004. To this day, Google Book Search (the material direct from publishers) and the Google...
Project Gutenberg one effort that we've mentioned from the very first day of Google's Library Project. That's why I was a bit disappointed to read when Hart says Gutenberg got no atttention when Google's Library Project was first launched.
The New York Public Library and Answers.com Announce New Homework Service. MSN changes UK domain name. Got the itch to go head-to-head with Google, Yahoo and all of the other big search players on the web?
For example, the San Francisco Public Library offers a collection of NetLibrary materials that you "virtually" check out from the collection. All you need is a library card from a library that offers NetLibrary services.
In the past few weeks we've not only posted about the latest with Google Book Search/Google Library Project, the Open Content Alliance, and new stuff coming from Amazon and others. He has also added the "first demo batch" of books from the Open...
The Information World Review (IWR is a VNU publication) article: Google digitisation faces Euro legal challenge, reports on Google's book digitisation project (the Google Library Project to be precise) facing some legal obstacles in Europe.
Over the past year, Google has digitized about 5,000 public domain books from the Library of Congress, material that may ultimately end up in Google Book Search, though it's not currently listed there yet.
