Search Engines: Book Search Engines

Authors Guild Appeals Lower Court Decision Backing Google’s Book Digitizing Project

The issue is whether Google’s project violates the copyrights of some of the millions of scanned books, or whether it has a valid “fair...

Barry Levine | Jan 4, 2016 at 1:50 pm ET

Bing has added two new search features for the school break season. (1) The ability to search for free online courses offered by the Khan...

Barry Schwartz | Jul 1, 2014 at 2:18 pm ET

Via Resource Shelf, we learn of a report in Library Journal that says Google is close to settling a three-year-old lawsuit with publishers...

Matt McGee | Oct 15, 2008 at 3:56 pm ET

An article in the New York Times today explores the “book search” initiatives at Google and Microsoft and the resistance of some...

Greg Sterling | Oct 22, 2007 at 8:31 am ET

Google, Baidu race to set up online library in China via Reuters reports that Baidu and Google are going at it to be the largest and best book...

Barry Schwartz | Mar 8, 2007 at 9:12 am ET

Freeing Google Books from Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped covers him trying an interesting experiment. Can Google dictate that public...

Danny Sullivan | Jan 10, 2007 at 9:41 am ET

Google Book-Scanning Efforts Spark Debate from the Associated Press is an excellent look how the rivalry between Google’s library scanning...

Danny Sullivan | Dec 20, 2006 at 11:09 am ET

The Live Search Blog announced that Microsoft released a beta named Live Search Books this morning. Plus they enhanced Live Search Academic by...

Barry Schwartz | Dec 6, 2006 at 8:29 am ET