Google Print

"Google on Tuesday unveiled an ambitious plan to bring information locked away in print form in libraries into its searchable index.

As previously reported by internetnews.com, Google has developed a method of scanning printed material so it can be used to answer searchers' queries along with Web content. Mountain View Calif.-based Google hopes to patent its proprietary method of scanning books and creating a searchable database.

The service went live Monday night with snippets from a few books. Google has already begun the digitization process in collaboration with the University of Michigan, Harvard, Stanford and Oxford Universities, and the New York City Public Library."

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