SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 17, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Topic: Google Books
Google Launches “Universal Search” & Blended Results
Google is undertaking the most radical change to its search results ever, introducing a “Universal Search” system that will blend listings from its news, video, images, local and book search engines among those it gathers from crawling web pages. The new system officially rolls out today for anyone using Google.com and searching in English. Not everyone will see it […]
University Of Lausanne Joins Google Book Search Library Project
Both the Google Book Search Blog and the Google Librarian Central Blog have announced that University of Lausanne in Switzerland has joined the Google Book Search Library Project. The university will digitize books not only in French but also in English, German, Latin, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and other languages.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 14, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 24, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 4, 2007
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Dissecting Microsoft Slams At Google As Copyright Infringer
Last October, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer gave us a taste of how Microsoft was going to position Google as a copyright leech. Today, Microsoft launched a full-out assault on the company. Google deserves some of this, no doubt. But the idea as Microsoft as some altruistic copyright savior deserves some critical analysis, as well. Below, I’ll dissect Microsoft’s slams against […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Feb. 20, 2007
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New Stats On Google’s Products Show Video & Blog Increasing While Froogle & Directory Decreasing
The Compete.com Blog released new data showing us the trends of Google’s various properties. Grouped in the “super performers” are Google Video, Google Blog Search, Google Scholar (up and down) and Google Desktop. In the standard performers included Google Maps, Google Toolbar, Google Book Search, Google Web Search, Google Image Search, and Google News Search. […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Jan. 26, 2007
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Google Book Search & Google Maps Team Up
The Google Book Search Blog announced a new feature they worked on together with Google Maps that shows you “places mentioned in this book” on the Google Book Search page. For example a Google Book Search result for Illustrated New York (1888) brings back a Google Map on the bottom left of the Google Book […]
Google To Provide Downloadable E-Books
Via Techmeme, Google plots e-books coup at the Times Online reports that Google is looking to make books more accessible to users. They hope to “allow readers to download entire books to their computers in a format that they could read on screen or on mobile devices such as a Blackberry.” Google’s director of Google […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Jan. 19, 2007
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Google Book Search To Add Chinese Books
AsiaMedia reports that Google has partnered with Cite Publishing Holding Group to bring Chinese books to Google Book Search. The service will enable users to search and read up to 20% of a book on their computer. The initial launch will be about 1,000 books, but they hope to have 3,000 book titles in Google […]
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 says that PDF downloads are available […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Dec. 25 & 26, 2006
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, Dec. 21, 2006
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
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 to lock up books for its […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Dec. 15, 2006
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Google Launches Google Patents, Full-Text US Patent Searching
Google has rolled out a new Google Patents search engine (Official Google Blog post here), allowing people to search across the full-text of US patents from 1790 through the middle of 2006. The company plans to update the service further with more 2006 filings and move to a weekly or better refresh schedule in the […]