Tag: BOOK SEARCH

Google has updated its Books app for iOS today, and the new version brings a handful of bug fixes, performance improvements, and a couple of new features. One of these is iPad-specific: reading books in the landscape orientation on Apple tablets is now possible. The second is the addition of a Find feature which shows you all the matches for a particular query as you scroll. Tapping Get ...

While Google and Microsoft race to digitize every book they can get their hands on, the Internet Archive has been working on a less controversial project by avoiding copyrighted works. The Open Library aims to reproduce the experience of reading a book online. Right now there are only a handful of public domain titles available, with many more coming in the next few months. The website is ...

The arms race between Microsoft and Google continues. Microsoft has just expanded its book search service to bring it more in line with Google Book Search by adding a limited number of copyrighted works, with permission from major publishers. Up until now, most of the titles indexed had been in the public domain. The update to MSN Live Search Books comes while Google is still battling several ...

Microsoft associate general counsel Thomas Rubin is talking smack about Google's copyright record. Both companies are scanning books and putting them online, and both companies have web sites that allow users to upload videos, some of which may contain copyrighted material. But Microsoft is scanning only books where the company has the permission of the publisher, or where the books are no longer ...

When you go into a bricks and mortar bookstore, you can spend as much time as you like wandering from section to section, picking up books and reading a few pages before deciding what you want to buy. The online bookselling experience has been something very different. You generally have to know what you want or make your decision based on recommendations, descriptions, or judging a book by its ...

Google products are no strangers to mashups from all forms of enthusiastic users and 3rd parties, but you know something cool is brewing when Google mashes up two of their most visionary services: Maps and Book Search. Recently on the Google Book Search blog, David Petrou announced this cool new feature, which they've added to the "About this Book" section of books you find in Google Book Search. ...

Considering the backlash from publishers Google has received for its book search offering--despite the fact that it's publishers whom it benefits most--one wouldn't think Microsoft would touch book search with a ten-foot pole. But here we are two years after Google launched what was then called Google Print, and Microsoft is set to launch its own book search offering in beta today. Windows Live ...

Google has tuned up the way you will search for books from now on with a slick new Ajax interface. Google has developed what it believes to be a better way to browse Google's digitized books on your computer screen. The new interface allows users who are reading books to use the scroll bar or arrow keys to navigate around the book. Users can also now zoom in and out and jump to a full screen view ...

There are many attempts each year to remove great books from libraries and schools, and in an effort by Google, Google Book Search will be celebrating Banned Books Week by helping people learn and explore banned books. Google Books is showcasing 42 classics that can be browsed, and purchased. Showcased titles include: To Kill a Mockingbird Lolita The Great Gatsby 1984 The Lord of the ...

Google is planning to offer Google Book Search users the ability to download and print selected classic out of copyright novels as PDF files for free. Google's CEO Eric Schmidt says he believes that this project will introduce many people to books that they would never have normally discovered. The free novel program started life as Google's giant initiative to put books online in a searchable ...

Reports have surfaced that Google plans to open up a Google AdWords headquarters in Ann Arbor Michigan. Hiring close to 1000 individuals to oversee the main hub for Google's driving revenue source. Google has already started posting positions for the AdWords headquarters on is HR pages. With the current category being Operations and IT. At the current time of posting, Google had two openings ...