How Google Book Search Got Lost

Re:How Google Book Search Got Lost by sebisebi on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @01:01PM (#14090002)

The articles alludes to it at the end: the "corpus" of scanned books is incredibly valuable to a big data company like google and gives them a real edge against other companies.

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Re:How Google Book Search Got Lost by WalterBright on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @01:10PM (#14090116)

If it is incredibly valuable, other companies can do it too, and sell access to the corpus to other companies.

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Re:How Google Book Search Got Lost by ot on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @01:42PM (#14090506)

Wouldn't they also run into the licensing problem, even more so if they try to sell access?

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Re:How Google Book Search Got Lost by _rpd on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @01:40PM (#14090485)

Seems a natural investment for Amazon.

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Re:How Google Book Search Got Lost by greglindahl on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @02:24PM (#14090948)

Here's Amazon's "search inside" program, which started in 2001: http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Search-Inside-the...

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