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Google Betas Google Print

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the print-on-demand dept.

Chronic Infection writes "Google is beta testing a book search service called Google Print. Here is a list of books included to date." Quick spot checking turned up excerpts like this one for The DaVinci Code, a great book if you haven't read it.

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  1. Page rank in books? by Karamchand · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Quote from Google Print FAQ: During this trial, publishers' content is hosted by Google and is ranked in our search results according to the same technology we use to evaluate websites.

    Now I wonder how this is done. Google's PageRank uses links from other pages to rank results - but in usual books there aren't any "hyperlinks".
    Could anyone offer me insight into this? - thanks!

    1. Re:Page rank in books? by arvindn · · Score: 4, Interesting

      There wouldn't be any links pointing out of them, but there would be links pointing into them. Which is all that's required to calculate PageRank. What I understood is that, they plan to put up a sample chapter or something as html and look at the inbound links that it gets.

  2. Interesting for now, but when do we get a d.l.? by medication · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is definitely a step in the right directions, but it's just that - a step. I'd really love to have access to a digital library (d.l.) in much the same I have access to one in the real world. I wonder if Ben Franklin came under as severe commercial pressure as those who are trying to push for a digital library available to all?

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    "If you're flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit." - Mitch Hedberg
  3. Wow how useful 53 books by glassesmonkey · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Currently there are 52 books in this database. (Use this google search)

    But it is an interesting idea. And might yield more useful results for information seeing as the bar for publishing a book is a little higher than getting a webpage listed in google.