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Oct. 22, 2007 at 8:31am by Greg Sterling
The Politics of Book Search: Some Research Libraries Decline to Offer Books to Microsoft, Google
An article in the New York Times today explores the "book search" initiatives at Google and Microsoft and the resistance of some research libraries to participating. The reason cited is that both search providers are asking for exclusivity: "Libraries that agree to work with Google must agree to a set...
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Mar. 8, 2007 at 9:12am by Barry Schwartz
Baidu & Google Go Head To Head With Chinese Book Search
Google, Baidu race to set up online library in China via Reuters reports that Baidu and Google are going at it to be the largest and best book search service in China. Reuters writes that Peking University Library in Beijing, "one of Asia's largest academic libraries," already has a partnership...
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Jan. 10, 2007 at 9:41am by Danny Sullivan
Authorama: Testing If Google Can Restrict Public Domain Books It Offers For Download
Freeing Google Books from Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped covers him trying an interesting experiment. Can Google dictate that public domain books that it has scanned and distributed on the web really be subject to restrictions on non-commercial work? First a look at how Google provides these books. Google...
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Dec. 20, 2006 at 11:09am by Danny Sullivan
Battle For Books: Evil Google Versus The Altruistic Open Content Alliance
Google Book-Scanning Efforts Spark Debate from the Associated Press is an excellent look how the rivalry between Google's library scanning project and that of the Open Content Alliance -- backed by Yahoo and Microsoft -- is getting more heated. Google pretty much comes off as the evil company trying...
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Dec. 6, 2006 at 8:29am by Barry Schwartz
Microsoft Releases Live Search Books Beta
The Live Search Blog announced that Microsoft released a beta named Live Search Books this morning. Plus they enhanced Live Search Academic by adding millions of new articles, plus indexing theses, dissertations, and books within these disciplines....
