Google Opens Digital Library to EU

Posted by Zonk on Friday September 2, 2005 @04:34AM from the library-around-the-world dept.

Kailash Nadh writes "Google Inc. is asking European book publishers to submit non-English material to its Internet-leading search engine a move that may ease worries about the company's digital library relying too heavily on Anglo-American content. The Google Print undertaking represents a major piece of Google's effort to convert printed material into a digital format so it can be called up from any computing device with an Internet connection. By indexing the material, Google hopes to attract more visitors to its Web site and spawn more searches that generate advertising revenue."

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Wow, really? by re-Verse · 2005-09-02 05:24 · Score: 0, Redundant

Google hopes to attract more visitors to its Web site and spawn more searches that generate advertising revenue. I, for one, am shocked. I never expected that Google would try to make money.

I'm also shocked that they are trying to attract more users to their website - thanks for this news. Until I read this, I was convinced that they were trying to keep themselves a secret.