How Google Book Search Got Lost

Re:How Google Book Search Got Lost by ma2rten on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @09:15PM (#14094012)

And also: the dawning realization that Scanning All The Books, however useful, might not change the world in any fundamental way.

I think this is actually the main takeaway.

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Re:How Google Book Search Got Lost by douche on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @09:19PM (#14094030)

Remember when ReCaptcha used Google Books snippets? You may not, it's been swapped over to Street View images for a while. But Google Books has been a big deal for automated OCR.

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