Google's Moon Shot

Google intends to scan every book ever published, and to make the full texts searchable, in the same way that Web sites can be searched on the company's engine at google.com. At the books site, which is up and running in a beta (or testing) version, at books.google.com, you can enter a word or phrase--say, Ahab and whale--and the search returns a list of works in which the terms appear, in this case nearly eight hundred titles, including numerous editions ... Full Story »

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Joel Kulenkamp
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by Joel Kulenkamp - Oct. 1, 2008

This is a very informative article about Google's crap shoot at scanning just about every piece of literature known to humanity. It chronicles the many issues Google has to contend with--from sustaining without advertising, to copyright issues, to other roadblocks like reluctance of some publishers to cooperate.

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