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Google Book Search (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
Posted by Santiago de la Mora, European Partnerships Lead, Books Growing up in Colombia in the '70s, I saw the effects of illiteracy firsthand. Some might take it for granted, but the ability to read is perhaps one of the most empowering acts we can do as individuals and members of society. This idea is what got me so excited about Google Book Search and, in fact, what brought me to Google. It's also...
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Google Book Search (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
Posted by Sarah Payne, Book Search Support Team By nature, I’m a loquacious person, so it should be no surprise that one of my favorite classes in college was a political science course on speakers and speeches. One of the textbooks, Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History (by one of my all-time favorite New York Times columnists, William Safire ) became one of my most cherished literary discoveries....
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Google Book Search (Free subscription) | 03/26/2008
Posted by Frances Haugen, Associate Product Manager A few weeks ago, while I had an early version of the Google Book Search Library Gadget on my iGoogle page, I was suddenly transfixed by the fascinating cover of Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties . What was this book doing, hovering somewhere between my weather gadget and the latest news headlines? One of the perks of product managing Google Book Search...
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PersonaNonData (Free subscription) | 03/25/2008
... And what do you know? We are almost there because librarything .com announced an integration with Google Book Search several weeks ago and on the site a user can link to the text of many of the titles in their collection. The links aren't universal but as a taste of what is surely inevitable it is a great step forward. Other companies are jumping on the API bandwagon. ExLibris announced...
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Microweb News (Free subscription) | 03/16/2008
Publishers can post let make with help of service the free digital doorsearchbaar. On this manner, publishers reach a larger public and thus more volume of trade, reasons Google. Except of the Netherlands can now also France, Itali, Germany and Spain join at Google Print. [...]
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Google Book Search (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Posted by Sabine Knierim, Ellen Cano, Kristoffer Evensen and Agnes Eymery, Book Search Support Team Ireland's most famous day – Paddy's Day – is celebrated on March 17, in honor of (you guessed it!) Saint Patrick . On this day, which is believed to be the anniversary of St. Patrick’s death in the 5th century, Irish all over the world remember their patron saint, who is famous for two things: bringing...
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Google Book Search (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
Posted by Jennie Johnson, Global Communications and Public Affairs One of the best things about working on Google Book Search is hearing all the imaginative and creative ways people are putting Book Search to work—ways we never could have imagined. Last year, for example, we heard from Jo Guldi , a graduate student studying 19th century British roads, and Erin McKean, a blogger who scouts Book Search...
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Google Book Search (Free subscription) | 02/28/2008
Posted by Chiu-Ki Chan, Software Engineer A few months ago, we launched My library . We are always looking to improve this feature and make it more useful for book lovers, so we recently made a few tweaks to make your library feel more personal and to make it easier to share with others. Here's an example of one of these improvements. The other day, I was reading the user reviews for The Undercover...
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Google Book Search (Free subscription) | 02/19/2008
Posted by Dan Abbe, Book Search Support Team Welcome to another edition of "From the Mailbag," where we respond to emails from Google Book Search users. This week's message comes from Albert F., who writes: "I can't find a way to report a scanned book in the Google repository that has page corruption (specifically a hand where text should appear). It would be nice to have some kind of link in the browser...
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Small Business Ideas Forum (Free subscription) | 02/18/2008
I've just started looking into Google's Print Ad feature and I was wondering if anyone has used this service yet and what are their feelings on it. I'm trying to best allocate marketing budget and I don't want to spend on services that won't provide a decent return.
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Inside Google (Free subscription) | 01/31/2008
Google’s print advertising program, which places ads from AdWords advertisers in magazines and newspapers, has started using two-dimensional bar codes in their ads. The bar code images, called QR Codes, are common in Japan and use a pattern of black and white squares. Properly equipped mobile devices with phone cameras can read the [...]
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Revenue Source (Free subscription) | 01/30/2008
Google’s hoping to spurn more interest in their newspaper advertising service - Google Print - by adding bar codes to ads . If you have a cell phone that is compatible, you could point it at the bar code and go to a web site printed at the bottom of an ad. read more More...
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WebPro News (Free subscription) | 01/29/2008
Google’s hoping to spurn more interest in their newspaper advertising service - Google Print - by adding bar codes to ads . If you have a cell phone that is compatible, you could point it at the bar code and go to a web site printed at the bottom of an ad. read more
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Marketing Pilgrim (Free subscription) | 01/29/2008
Google’s hoping to spurn more interest in their newspaper advertising service - Google Print - by adding bar codes to ads. If you have a cell phone that is compatible, you could point it at the bar code and go to a web site printed at the bottom of an ad. As an example, I’ll take [...]
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Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 01/17/2008
Everything Is Miscellaneous is indexed, searchable, and previewable at Google Books. Yay! Interesting to see the metadata Google extracts and assembles, sometimes guessing wrong. (Vermes in my book is an animal category, not a place.)
