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 Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:32 am Post subject: Google Print |
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Google takes the competition to school
While rivals scramble to catch up on the desktop, Google plans to digitize famous libraries.
| Quote: | It’s official. Google is the most dangerous media company on the planet. Yesterday’s announcement that the search company will index and catalog books in five of the world’s great libraries is just the latest example of how Google bounces in a new direction every time its competitors seem on the verge of catching up.
The Mountain View, California, search company is digitizing the book collections of Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford Universities, the University of Michigan, and the New York Public Library. This places Google in a whole new arena: the lucrative business of providing premium content and search.
Google hasn’t revealed a business model for its library venture. Indeed, Peter Kosewski, director of publications and communications at Harvard University, said Google is bearing the costs of scanning and indexing 40,000 titles at Harvard. While that number may one day grow to all 15 million books in Harvard’s library, there is no financial agreement between Google and Harvard to split advertising revenue, he said. Google says it isn’t yet selling advertising on the content it is sucking out of libraries like Harvard’s. |
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| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:11 am Post subject: |
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They announced this a while back, so I knew about this before. But still, it's a nice thing they're doing, it will extend Google's influence.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 7:32 am Post subject: |
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I guess that I should always remember that the root word of news is 'new', but I couldn't find anything about in the forums, so I posted it in case someone hadn't read about it yet. The article came out Dec. 15.
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