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Search Engine Watch
May 4, 2005
Gary Price |
Going Under Cover with Book Search Tools Google, Amazon and others offer really useful 'search inside the book' tools, but they're not always the easiest features to use. Here's a closer look at getting the most from online book search services.   |
Information Today
November 2006
Mick O'Leary |
Database Review: Google Book Search Has Far to Go Google Book Search is Google's grand project to create a universal full-text e-book library. Here are the details of how Book Search works. |
Search Engine Watch
October 6, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Print Opens Widely To Publishers Google's nearly year-old Google Print program is set for a huge expansion of content through the launch of a new program today allowing publishers to more easily submit material for inclusion. |
Information Today
December 22, 2003
Barbara Quint |
Google Beta Tests Book Search Service "Google's mission is to provide access to all the world's information and make it universally useful and accessible." Such conservative goal-setting has now led the world's busiest search engine to a new set of content -- books in print. |
Information Today
August 15, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Google slows library project to accommodate publishers Publishers complain about copyright issues with Google's Print for Libraries program. |
Information Today
December 2005
Keith Kupferschmid |
Are Authors and Publishers Getting Scroogled? A copyright analysis of the Google Print Library Project. |
InternetNews
December 14, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Pens New Search Chapter Google unveiled an ambitious plan to bring information locked away in print form in libraries into its searchable index. |
Information Today
October 6, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Google Print Expands Access to Books with Digitization Offer to All Publishers Instead of limiting the program to digitally formatted extracts and descriptive material contributed by selected publishers, the expanded Google Print program now offers to digitize any and all books contributed by any and all book publishers. |
Search Engine Watch
December 14, 2004
Gary Price |
Google Partners with Oxford, Harvard & Others to Digitize Libraries Google is working closely with five new content partners on a massive scanning project that will bring millions of volumes of printed books into the Google Print database. |
Search Engine Watch
October 27, 2003
Gary Price |
Amazon Debuts New Book Search Tool 'Search Inside the Book' allows you to search the full-text of more than 33 million pages from over 120,000 printed books. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2004 |
Internet Search Engine Update Froogle... Gigablast... Google... etc. |
Information Today
November 3, 2003
Barbara Quint |
'Search Inside the Book': Full-Text on Amazon Tapping into over 33 million pages from over 120,000 non-fiction and fiction titles supplied by over 190 publishers, Amazon.com has launched a major online access service to the full text of publications. |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
Gary Price |
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching |
InternetNews
August 12, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Google Suspends Copyright Copies The search engine giant makes concessions to copyright owners but some publishers still have concerns about Google's book projects. |
Information Today
November 21, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Books Online: The Free Versus Free Battle Begins Now that all the book digitizers have done enough to create what anyone would call library-size collections, they have begun to deliver the full text electronically and to reveal how they plan to "monetize" their investments. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2006
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - Tracking Your Search History Commercial databases and traditional online systems have offered a search history feature for decades. Web search engines are finally catching up. The options vary greatly among them, but all raise a number of privacy issues. |
Searcher
October 2005
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Apology How does Google Print contribute to the distribution of book literature? |
Information Today
December 20, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Google and Research Libraries Launch Massive Digitization Project Google has launched a program with a number of research libraries which aims at ultimately scanning all the books in their collections. Could this mark the beginning of the end of brick-and-mortar libraries? |
PC Magazine
November 30, 2005
Michael J. Miller |
Our Best Products of the Year Major improvements to most electronics, but not in the area of security... Google's Print Library Project... Web applications are the hottest trend in software... |
Information Today
August 29, 2005
Barbara Quint |
CORRECTIONS: Google Print Not All I Said It Was Google does not supply publishers with e-books as part of the Google Print program, contrary to earlier reporting. Other errors in the Google Print reporting were also discovered. |
Search Engine Watch
December 17, 2003
Chris Sherman |
Google Introduces Book Searches Google has launched an experimental program that indexes excerpts of popular books, blending the content from these works into regular Google search results. |
Information Today
September 5, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Google Opens Public Domain Books for Downloading, Michigan Launches MBooks Google has changed its policy and will now allow users to download full-image files of public domain books in its Google Book Search collection. |
InternetNews
November 3, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Booksellers Move to Pay-Per-View Random House and Amazon will let readers buy only the pages they want. |
InternetNews
October 19, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Print Hits The Fan The Association of American Publishers said it's suing Google over its plans to digitally copy and distribute copyrighted works without permission of the copyright owners. |
InternetNews
September 21, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Authors Guild Gags on Google Library Authors sue Google in federal court over the Google Library program, charging massive copyright infringement. |
Searcher
February 2005
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Round Up the Unusual Suspects! How could Google's plans to offer digitized book content of brick-and-mortar libraries affect the library world? |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Google Gets Burned Big questions remain unanswered about digital media's future. Google's battles to get its hands on copyrighted content may ultimately carry a hefty financial price for its shareholders. |
ONLINE
May 2001
Greg R. Notess |
On the Net, Tracking Title Search Capabilities Web page title search capabilities have expanded somewhat, although to nowhere near the levels available in our more sophisticated bibliographic systems... |
Information Today
December 2006
Greg R. Notess |
Microsoft Launches Live Search Books Microsoft has launched Live Search Books. All of the books available on Live Search Books are out-of-copyright titles, thus avoiding the copyright controversy at Google Books. |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2004
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update About.com sold its Sprinks ad network to Google... Amazon has entered the search field in a big way... AOL has renewed its use of the Google Web and ad databases... Ask Jeeves added an advanced search page... Gigablast has removed the date sort option... etc. |
The Motley Fool
November 15, 2005
Tom Taulli |
Net Giants' Book Battle Google mulls another innovation -- renting books online. Digital books could become an important additional source of online ad revenue for competitive companies. Investors, take note. |
PC Magazine
October 28, 2003 |
20 Great Google Secrets You already love searching with google. These tips can make finding what you need even easier. |
InternetNews
August 9, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Google Book Project Signs UC Pact Google's effort to index library books turned another page with the addition of the University of California to its Print Library Project. |
InternetNews
May 27, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Print Goes Live Google opened the door to its online library with the launch of Print.Google.Com, a book-specific search page. |
Search Engine Watch
November 18, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Scholar Offers Access To Academic Information Google has launched a new Google Scholar search service, providing the ability to search for scholarly literature located from across the web. |
InternetNews
October 18, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Extends Print Further into Europe Google expanded its Google Print service, launching book-specific search services in France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, and Spain. |
InternetNews
November 3, 2005
Tim Gray |
Google Opens Library Doors to the World The first large scale collection of public domain books went live online today as part of search giant Google's plan to amass the world of letters on the Internet. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2004
Michael A. Banks |
Amazon.com Opens the Books Amazon.com opened more than 120,000 contemporary books in its catalog to full-text searching. The site's "Search Inside the Book" feature lets shoppers search the complete content of books from some 200 cooperating publishers. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2005
Greg R. Notess |
Scholarly Web Searching: Google Scholar and Scirus Both Scholar and Scirus have potential for information professionals and end users. At this point, each covers a certain segment of scholarly material, but plenty of problems remain. Other search tools continue to serve the scholarly community better. |
Information Today
Barbara Quint |
Amazon Introduces New Web Search Engine Amazon.com's technical research subsidiary, A9, has released a new search engine that combines Google searching of the Web with searches of Amazon's own full-text collection of books and site information from Amazon's Alexa service. |
InternetNews
November 1, 2005
Tim Gray |
Google Back in Book Business Google says it will resume scanning copyrighted books. |
The Motley Fool
September 21, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Another Google Gaffe? Google has a big mission in organizing the world's information, and it takes more than good technology to do that. Till the company proves it understands this, it doesn't deserve your hard-earned investing dollars. |
Information Today
September 29, 2008
Barbara Quint |
Search Inside the Google Book With the Google Book Search Preview Wizard The new Preview Wizard from Google installs a set of customizable software tools embedding book information from the Google Book Search Index. |
ONLINE
Nov/Dec 2003
Greg R. Notess |
Unusual Power Web Searching Commands These are tools that you may never use or may only try once in a year of searching. But for those who like to dig deeper, who seek the hard-to-find information nuggets, using these commands can help you mine the Internet for information in ways that others will never consider. |
Information Today
May 31, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Google Library Project Hit by Copyright Challenge from University Presses Extending the Google Print program to the digitization of five of the world's largest university research libraries, including copyrighted as well as non-copyrighted material, would inevitably seem to lead to a challenge of copyright violation. Oddly enough, the challenge has come from the less commercial publishers--the nonprofit university presses. |
The Motley Fool
March 14, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Google Turns the Page The search giant comes up with a way to show book publishers the money. Meanwhile, it could get Google out of the hot seat when it comes to the controversial topic of digital copyright -- something Google investors certainly want to see. |
Searcher
January 2008
Ashmore & Grogg |
The Race to the Shelf Continues Internet giants are in the middle of a modern-day space race: Who can scan the most and the best books in alliance with the biggest and brightest libraries in the U.S. |
Search Engine Watch
April 21, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Blending the Best of Google and Amazon Amazon.com subsidiary A9 goes beyond Google, offering a number of unique options, including some very cool personalization features. |
InternetNews
September 1, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Print Goes to Europe Book publishers in five European companies can opt in to Google's Print Publishers Program. The indexed book content will be searchable via Google Book Search or regular Web search in all versions of Google. |
BusinessWeek
July 25, 2005
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
The Web Hits the Stacks The bulk of human knowledge represented by printed material -- especially that more than 25 years old -- does not exist in digital form. But Yahoo! and Google are are leading the way in efforts to open the world of print and proprietary material to browsing. |
