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The world's leading search engine Google has added yet another
feature to its already long list -- the ability to allow users
to search complete text of books. It also offers assistance to the
publishers selling the books.
The feature, Google Print, works no differently than conducting
normal searches on Google or any other search engine for that matter.
The Simple Search Process
- The user enters the search terms
- The engine produces links to books containing the related information
- The user then has the choice of reading the selected text for
its relevancy
Because the users are unable to print the pages, Google Print offers
links to online booksellers from whom they may buy the book. There
are also direct links to the book's publisher. The engine is still
a beta version, and a number of kinks are still being worked out.
One of the areas of improvement center on the limited number of
books in the engine's book catalog. The founder's solution
to this is encouraging other publishers to sign up to the service.
Currently their publishers include Penguin, Wiley, Hyperion, Pearson,
Taylor & Francis, Cambridge, Chicago, Oxford, Princeton and
Scholastic.
Forbes
October 7, 2004
Digital
Media Europe October 7, 2004
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