SEO Book.com SEO Toolbar -- A comprehensive toolbar for Mozilla Firefox that includes a variety of link segmentation information, competitive intelligence metrics (Compete, Alexa, Quantcast, Google Trends for Websites), website comparison tools...
SEO Book.com This week Google could be releasing Gingerbread, the lastest version of it's Android mobile operating system software, following a tweet from Alvaro Fuentes Vasquez, a member of the leadership team at the Open Handset Alliance...
I'd love to get phone book style click reports. Debra Mastaler, link building specialist at Alliance-Link It would be most helpful if a major search engine would become more deeply involved in contributing functionality to the open source community...
Seth Godin Dishes Out Meatball SundaesSES Chicago keynote speaker Seth Godin spent an hour dishing out his marketing wisdom on the ideas behind his new book, Meatball Sundae. Google to Launch OpenSocial APIsShortly after losing out to Microsoft in...
As far as "pure" public domain material, the full text will be viewable online and in full text via Google Book Search. In other words, it's not a full text book search tool. I also once again want to point out that many other companies are out...
Establishing New Trust Signals In Search: Moving To Trusted Links Joins Open Content Alliance, A New Digital Library Alliance Makes its Debut, Germany: Publishers Plan Online Book Service, Details about Europe's i2010 Digital Libraries Program...
What's crucial to remember is that Google Print (recently renamed Google Book Search) itself was around before Google's announcement to digitize the full or partial holdings of five large university libraries.
Second, a page from an actual book via NetLibrary. Finally, John mentions that he is adding some public domain books from Google Book Search. He has also added the "first demo batch" of books from the Open Library, sponsored by the Open Content...
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. But why another book post?
Danny does a great job of summarizing what SEW Blog has been saying since the beginning about the differences between Google Print/Book for Publishers and Google Print/Book for Libraries in his post: Once Again -- The Difference Between Google...
Book digitization has been going on at the University of Toronto Libraries for some time. She is one of about a dozen scanners employed by the Internet Archive, a San Francisco nonprofit group that is spearheading the Open Content Alliance, a...
In a new interview Amazon.com CEO, Jeff Bezos, talks about Search Inside the Book and their new Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade programs. Last week, we posted details about these programs (Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade) which are based on their...
Google book scanning still on hold from News.com has more follow up on the resumption of scanning, as well as how well-known quotes from some classic books fail to bring up these books in Google Print's top results.
As expected, the first materials that will be available via MSN Book Search will be content in the public domain coming via the OCA database. Of course, LOTS of details, both practical and legal need to be worked out but Tiedt told me to begin...
Publishers can choose exactly how much of a book they want to show, from only a few snippets of text, to a few pages to even the entire book, if they explicitly tell Google they want that to happen. As I tried to make clear yesterday, their is a...
Will people want to wait to get the book and/or will libraries be able to afford an increased amount of interlibrary loans? Also, Google Library material will have direct links to access the material from a library along with various online book...
It's only when a page ranks that you'll gain traffic, and getting the page to rank comes down to great content attracting good links, in his book. Google's Library Scanning Project Heads to Court - Many predicted that the copyright issues that...
Since then we've posted several other articles about the topic and links to online book tools including the wonderful Online Books Page from the University of Pennsylvania that offers free full text access to over 20,000 titles (both new and old...
Searchblog's Battelle Launching Blog Ad Network - Wired Co-Founder Nears Launch of Blog Ad Network look at how John Battelle, author of Searchblog and the upcoming book The Search, is branching out into running a blog ad network.
Library provides a means to see if there's a local library near you that carries the paper or book, through the Open WorldCat program. In these cases, a Library Search and Web Search link will appear next to the paper or book's title.
