Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Google Book Search
In a follow on to the link to the Caffeinated Librarian more library related links...
Cornell University is going to work with Google Book Search.
This is Wiki's take on Google Book Search.
In a practical test of Google Book Search, it found one of the first three random quotes the Clarion gave it. It did not recognize an Edward Abbey quote or a paragraph from Neal Stephenson, but it found a line from Milan Kundera’s, Immortality. Not a very scientific sampling, admittedly.
The manner in which it displays the books, while seemingly truncated and unpleasant, is truly not much different than the way Amazon and Barnes and Noble sell their tomes on line. One can't touch the books. One can look inside them (in a less than five sensory sorta kinda way.) Google provides a similar look and the link to Amazon, as well as, Barnes and Noble.
For now, the big deal about Google's service isn't after one finds the book, it is in the ability to search out and find the book in the first place.
Perhaps, the most interesting thing Google Book Search provides is a service to link from the book one has found searching, to a local library that has said book in it's collection via one's zip code. It is bad ass.
Cornell University is going to work with Google Book Search.
This is Wiki's take on Google Book Search.
In a practical test of Google Book Search, it found one of the first three random quotes the Clarion gave it. It did not recognize an Edward Abbey quote or a paragraph from Neal Stephenson, but it found a line from Milan Kundera’s, Immortality. Not a very scientific sampling, admittedly.
The manner in which it displays the books, while seemingly truncated and unpleasant, is truly not much different than the way Amazon and Barnes and Noble sell their tomes on line. One can't touch the books. One can look inside them (in a less than five sensory sorta kinda way.) Google provides a similar look and the link to Amazon, as well as, Barnes and Noble.
For now, the big deal about Google's service isn't after one finds the book, it is in the ability to search out and find the book in the first place.
Perhaps, the most interesting thing Google Book Search provides is a service to link from the book one has found searching, to a local library that has said book in it's collection via one's zip code. It is bad ass.
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