Google Launches Google Print

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 6, 2004 @11:12AM 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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mine a book through google by mrpuffypants · 2004-10-06 11:49 · Score: 0, Redundant

Step 1: search google for some phrase and find a book with that phrase somewhere in it
Step 2: go two pages in each direction and find another word on those pages; download all pages viewed to hard drive
Step 3: re-search for those two terms and go back to step 2.
Step 4: repeat until entire book has been spidered
Step 5: ...
Step 6: profit???