Forbes.com: Brin: Google Turns Libraries Into Latest Weapon Vs. Search Rivals
Here’s a quote ( I broke it up a little for easier reading):
“The firm founded by wunderkind duo Sergey Brin and Larry Page will be scanning in millions of books and periodicals drawn from several sources.
The universities of Michigan and Stanford are permitting Google access to their entire libraries. But for various reasons, other book depositories participating in the program are taking the slow-but-steady approach:
Harvard is contributing only 40,000 books so it can measure the program’s efficiency–and the physical care taken with its often rare and irreplaceable volumes.
Oxford wants Google to scan only its books originally published before the year of Queen Victoria’s passing: 1901.
And the New York Public Library is granting Google access to a mere fraction of its vast shelves, specifically books no longer covered by copyright. The latter two are no doubt haunted by the fate of an earlier computer-literacy program, Project Gutenberg, which sought to deliver texts to the masses but became bogged down in legal issues.”
Now this is interesting. And I bet in two years, folks’ll be begging to get listed in Google Print.
I mean, just check out this preview of what it will look like, on Google’s update page about the library arm of its project.
Sweet.
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