Google Print gets University Support

Google Print made big news enabling authors to make their books available online for search and possible sale through Google affiliates. Now Google is taking the concept even further with collaboration with some of the biggest universities in the world.

They have received the support of libraries of Oxford University, Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the New York Public Library. Google will begin with scanning the books provided from these massive sources and let Google users search through them using the search engine.

Oxford is making available all books printed before 1901, while other libraries are providing books that are out of the copyright criteria. Harvard is giving the process a test with initial submission of 40000 books.

Google co-founder Larry Page had this to say: “Even before we started Google, we dreamed of making the incredible breadth of information that librarians so lovingly organize searchable online.”

Yahoo! and Microsoft have more headaches with Google again taking a great initiative and extending the reach of its search engine.

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