Google planning big things with Books and GMail
October 7th, 2004 Leave a comment Visited 110 times, 1 so far today
Google planning big things with Books and GMail
Google has not had anything big for us since it went public some time ago. Now, it is back with some news that could worry biggies like Amazon and Barnes and Noble. It has decided to get into book selling business. The service is called Google Print and would be unveiled in a press conference at Frankfurt Book Fair.
What is interesting in this news is that Google will not be selling the books itself. It would instead incorporate book search into the regular Google Search. If a user searches for some content from a book that is available on Google Print, he will get an option to view excerpts from it online. In addition, from that section he will get options to buy the book from various business partners of Google offering the book. Google on the other hand would profit from content relevant ads running on these search pages.
Google is now inviting publishers to send the books they want to make available in Google search to them where they will be scanned and merged into Google Search for free! In addition, Google has already collaborated with companies like Penguin and Scholastic to get access to a large variety of books.
On the other hand, some GMail users would have seen the new offering from Google. They are currently testing mail-forwarding facility in GMail, which is reportedly free during testing. A clear indication that many of the future services (POP/IMAP support) would come at a price. Also, an Atom RSS feed link was visible for sometime in the GMail interface which is now surprisingly gone, pointing towards a possibility of checking GMail from mail aggregators. Overall, very much visible that Google guys are not sitting idle after becoming billionaires!
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October 27th, 2004 at 10:32 pm
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October 7th, 2004 at 4:47 pm
Google Print is apparently the only new thing that has come our ways since GMail which happened much before the August IPO. I would love to check out what else Google unveiled between GMail and Google Print except for enhancements to already existing services.
October 7th, 2004 at 6:22 pm
it is best thing that you are providing online bookstore
please send me the list of cmputer related books inyou store
October 7th, 2004 at 9:42 pm
Google has also released Local Google for Canada local.google.ca.
They have teamed up with “Yellow Pages”. It’s a cool feature and I’m sure as time goes on, other markets will have it too.
October 7th, 2004 at 9:49 pm
it would take them real long to cover the world. :) USA and Canada sure comes on top of the list…
October 8th, 2004 at 12:31 am
I wish google would open up gmail for use with 3rd party domains. Organizations like churches, user groups, or any website could offer e-mail address with their domain names. The mail DNS records could be set up to point to Google’s servers.
In exchange for sharing some ad revenue (ala adsense), Google would have a fleet of people pushing gmail powered email addresses. There would be a great many good e-mail names instead of a bunch of crypticnames382@gmail.com, etc.
Could be a win-win for everybody.