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Google, Random House in Book Search Deal

By: Reuters | Oct 13, 2007

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Google has so far digitized the full texts of more than 1 million books. The total number of books in the world is unknown but global library collective WorldCat has more than 91 million bibliographic records in its database, the biggest of its kind.

Google has come some way toward pacifying its critics since causing a furore after it launched the project in 2004 amid fears, most vociferous in Europe, that Google would gain something close to a monopoly of world culture.

Google now works with 27 libraries worldwide, up from seven a year ago, and its book search is available in 11 languages Oxford University's Bodleian Library and Japan's Keio University library.

The company, which does not charge or pay its publisher partners, gains depth and authority for its Internet search engine by making not only Web pages but also books searchable.

It has already integrated book results into its U.S. search engine and is beginning to do so in Europe.

Google does include advertising on its partner programme book-search pages, with its publisher partners getting most of the advertising revenue.

It has no current plans to do so on its library search pages while it still improving them, for example by including links to Google Maps to show where the action in a book is taking place or adding braille layers for the visually impaired.

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WHAT CONFIG IT HAS ? is any one know?

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