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Google Launches Google Print

Posted by samzenpus on from the even-more-searching dept.

Rescate writes "As reported by Reuters,Google is launching Google Print, which will show book excerpts next to regular Google search results. A spokesman said, "We're trying to index every book there is, and make it searchable for our users." Even though this competes with Amazon's A9 search which also searches within books, Google says the two companies will continue to work together, and that Google Print will link to Amazon, as well as other sellers, to buy books listed in the search results. Google will demonstrate the technology Thursday, Oct. 7 at the Frankfurt Book Fair."

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  1. See also... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google Betas Google Print

  2. Example... by tommertron · · Score: 4, Informative
    In case anyone wants a real live example:

    http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie =utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=mastering+digital+photograph y

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  3. See for your self by mishmash · · Score: 5, Informative

    Click here to see some google print results.

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  4. Re:Launched? by iMaple · · Score: 4, Informative

    RTFF (FAQ) to use it just google normally.
    An example search for The time machine ?
    Time machine Shows the book.

    The pages are shown as images and u can read upto 3 pages in this case.

  5. FAQ #5 -- Google's DRM for your web browser by yeremein · · Score: 4, Informative
    From the FAQ:
    5. What can I do with books that I find?

    Well, you can browse a few pages, learn more about the topics explored by the book, buy it, or commit a selection to memory. To further protect your book content, printing and image copying functions are disabled on all Google Print content pages. (emphasis added)

    Google for Mastering Digital Photography and you'll see a Google Print link up front. The page is shown as a graphic, with search hits highlighted in yellow. Google somehow (probably a though a CSS hack) manages to substitute a 1x1 white pixel .GIF file for the page if you try to print it or copy its location. They also disable the browser's context menu on the entire page (not just over the image), although Mozilla can deny it the right to do that (Prefs | Advanced | Scripts & Plugins).

    I'm not sure I like this. This is fairly innocuous (they can't stop a screen capture), but it still bothers me a bit that a company whose motto is "Do No Evil" is dabbling in DRM...
  6. Re:Google is really stretching it ... by Lshmael · · Score: 5, Informative

    But for anyone doing more than storing recipes, you need a proper desktop search engine, or even just an email search engine.

    And of course, your endorsement of aforementioned products would not have anything to do with being the CEO of the company that makes them, right?