Google to index libraries

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Google Planning To Index Entire
Libraries

Google Planning To Index Entire
Libraries 12/17/2004 06:37 PM
For a long time there have been rumors going around about Project Ocean, a project by Google to index all the pre-1923 content in the Stanford Library. (I'd call it...

Google Scans the Libraries

Google Scans the Libraries 12/17/2004 06:43 PM

Google to scan books from big libraries: Google is going to start scanning the books in libraries.

The New York library is allowing Google to include a small portion of its books no longer covered by copyright while Harvard is confining its participation to 40,000 volumes so it can gauge how well the process works. Oxford wants Google to scan all its books originally published before 1901.

Libraries try to fit into a Google world

Libraries try to fit into a Google world 06/21/2004 09:16 AM
Source: News.com - Librarians have increasingly seen people use online search sites not to supplement research libraries but to replace them....

Google.com Removed from Google Index

Google.com Removed from Google Index 07/29/2004 08:26 PM
Google.com can not be found in the google index. Get screen shots for the archives ;-)

Google expands Web index

Google expands Web index 02/18/2004 09:18 AM
IHT Feb 18 2004 1:26PM GMT

Google Taking Top Libraries Digital

Google Taking Top Libraries Digital 12/17/2004 06:25 PM
Tampatrib.com - Fri Dec 17, 07:11 am GMT

Google Buzz Index: Big PMPin'

Google Buzz Index: Big PMPin' 06/28/2004 06:31 PM

So this week's Google Buzz Index might not be as interesting to everyone else as is it is to me, since I'm writing about Personal Such-and-such Players all week long, but it's something I really had wondered about, especially with the influx of new media players coming out of Asia. I really didn't expect "personal video player" to take such a huge lead, but there's no mistaking it -- that's the term most used to describe these devices. I'm a little disappointed, too; I'd much rather use 'Personal/Portable Media Player' as it is a more accurate description of what these devices can do. Once we ever get around to changing our categories, my guess is that PortableMedia will still be what we go with over PersonalVideo, numbers be damned.

Related
Google Buzz Index: Tapland Rebuts, Gizmodo Rebutters [Gizmodo]
Google Buzz Index: Next Gen Portable Game Systems, Possible Xbox 2 Names [Gizmodo]
Google Buzz Index: QWERTY Smartphone Messagers and Ultralight Hybrids [Gizmodo]

Google Index Continues to Grow

Google Index Continues to Grow 02/19/2004 02:15 PM
About Web Search Feb 19 2004 6:27PM GMT

Google Boosts Search Index

Google Boosts Search Index 02/17/2004 09:02 PM
Google on Tuesday said its index increased to 6 billion items, including more than 4 billion Web pages. The announcement comes as competition in the search-engine market heats up.

Google hindered by index exclusions

Google hindered by index exclusions 09/03/2004 06:47 AM
Chicago Tribune Sep 3 2004 11:29AM GMT

Google Adds 1B More Pages to Web Index

Google Adds 1B More Pages to Web Index 02/17/2004 07:51 PM
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE Tuesday, February 17, 2004. SAN FRANCISCO - Online search engine leader Google Inc. added an additional 1 billion ...

Getting a Personal Invite into the
Google Index

Getting a Personal Invite into the
Google Index 03/14/2005 05:16 PM
" I recieved an email from someone at google telling me the benifits of allowing the google spider to index my site. The site in question has a robots.txt file disallowing all search engines."

Google adds major libraries to its
database

Google adds major libraries to its
database 12/19/2004 03:06 PM
Google plans to announce an agreement Tuesday with some of the nation's leading research libraries and Oxford University to begin converting their holdings into digital files that would be freely searchable over the Web.

Does Google move augur commercialization
of libraries?

Does Google move augur commercialization
of libraries? 12/25/2004 04:49 PM
Wbz1030.com - Fri Dec 24, 09:01 pm GMT

The real reason why Google is digitizing
libraries?

The real reason why Google is digitizing
libraries? 12/19/2004 03:47 PM
It sounds like a very magnanimous thing for Google to do - to build a virtual library of Alexandria, but...

Google adding major libraries to
database

Google adding major libraries to
database 12/19/2004 03:06 PM

New York Times

Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database

By JOHN MARKOFF and EDWARD WYATT

Google, the operator of the world's most popular Internet search service, plans to announce an agreement today with some of the nation's leading research libraries and Oxford University to begin converting their holdings into digital files that would be freely searchable over the Web.

It may be only a step on a long road toward the long-predicted global virtual library. But the collaboration of Google and research institutions that also include Harvard, the University of Michigan, Stanford and the New York Public Library is a major stride in an ambitious Internet effort by various parties. The goal is to expand the Web beyond its current valuable, if eclectic, body of material and create a digital card catalog and searchable library for the world's books, scholarly papers and special collections.

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Harvard Pilot Project with Google

I just got a university-wide email regarding a pilot project that Harvard is starting with Google. It looks like Google will also be joining with other universities in this project, which will begin the work of digitizing, and in the case of public domain works providing public access to, the contents of the Harvard library system.

Sounds good. Now if only we can figure out a way to get more of the books, particularly those which are out of print, into the public domain.

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Google Partners with Oxford, Harvard &
Others to Digitize Libraries

Google Partners with Oxford, Harvard &
Others to Digitize Libraries 12/19/2004 03:06 PM
Google is working closely with five new content partners on a massive scanning project that will bring millions of volumes of printed books into the Google Print database.

Google expands web index to more than 6
billion items

Google expands web index to more than 6
billion items 02/17/2004 05:14 PM
InternetRetailer.com Feb 17 2004 9:33PM GMT

Google adds 1 billion more pages to Web
index

Google adds 1 billion more pages to Web
index 02/17/2004 06:32 PM
San Francisco Chronicle Feb 17 2004 11:11PM GMT

Google adds one billion more pages to
Web index

Google adds one billion more pages to
Web index 02/18/2004 12:05 PM
CTV.ca Feb 18 2004 3:44PM GMT

Google to Index the Entire Internet in
2006

Google to Index the Entire Internet in
2006 11/05/2003 06:25 AM
ChriSEO.com Nov 5 2003 5:13AM ET

Update Ginger? Google Updated Index -
Going Live?

Update Ginger? Google Updated Index -
Going Live? 12/22/2003 12:37 PM

Google Can Now Index . . . Flash! An
Interview with Michael Marshall

Google Can Now Index . . . Flash! An
Interview with Michael Marshall 09/07/2004 06:09 PM
WebProNews Sep 7 2004 10:05PM GMT

Google Buzz Index: Tapland Rebuts,
Gizmodo Rebutters

Google Buzz Index: Tapland Rebuts,
Gizmodo Rebutters 06/16/2004 11:47 AM

Tapland's Scott Raulinaitis takes me to task for my loose science method on yesterday's Google Buzz Index, and makes one good point that I agree with, and another that I don't. My response after the jump.

Google Adds Pages to Web Search, Doubles
Image Index

Google Adds Pages to Web Search, Doubles
Image Index 02/19/2004 10:09 AM
Google announced earlier this week that they'd made some changes and upgrades to their search properties, including: Google Images -- There are now over 800 million images in their image...

Major Google Security Bug Found :
Microsoft.com Removed From Index

Major Google Security Bug Found :
Microsoft.com Removed From Index 05/13/2004 07:57 AM
Various discussions on WebmasterWorld over the last few weeks alleged the possibility of a security bug in the Google removal URL feature. A Google user submitted microsoft.com for removal. We are stunned to report - not only did it work, but Microsoft.com just went PR0.

Incremental Indexing Shows Minor
Reshuffling of Google Index

Incremental Indexing Shows Minor
Reshuffling of Google Index 06/05/2005 11:27 PM
Update or Not? It is hard to determine these days. Either way, it looks like a small shuffling of the Google index is taking place at several data centers.

U.S. Stock-Index Futures Advance; Shares
of Amazon.com, Google Gain

U.S. Stock-Index Futures Advance; Shares
of Amazon.com, Google Gain 12/28/2004 09:09 AM
Bloomberg Dec 28 2004 1:33PM GMT

Google Buzz Index: QWERTY Smartphone
Messagers and Ultralight Hybrids

Google Buzz Index: QWERTY Smartphone
Messagers and Ultralight Hybrids 06/07/2004 10:22 AM

So I thought I'd try to get all sciencey on you, here, and did some informal Google mining to see what people are talking about. I made these first two graphs in Excel all by myself!

The first is a comparison of keyboarded messaging tools: the Treo 600, the RIM Blackberry (all models), and the upcoming Motorola MPx (for spice). The listing on the left (horizontal, not the vertical label) is my Google search string, just so you can check the search terms yourself if you want. As I said, this isn't an exact science, but I tried my best to weed out false positives. The Treo wins the buzz index this round, but the MPx has a strong start for something that won't even be out until the fall.

Google Buzz Index: Next Gen Portable
Game Systems, Possible Xbox 2 Names

Google Buzz Index: Next Gen Portable
Game Systems, Possible Xbox 2 Names 06/15/2004 06:14 PM

More loose science Google mining today, starting with a sampling of the five major next generation portable gaming systems. I'm a little surprised -- the Nintendo DS comes out on top, even over the Sony PSP. My guess is science is failing us here, as another query for "playstation portable" pulls up another 666,000 hits (oooweeoooh), which added to the to the "sony psp" results brings us up to 1,425,000, or about 200k over Nintendo. My guess is it's somewhere in between those numbers and it's fair to say the Nintendo DS and the PSP are, buzz-wise, in a dead heat. The Nokia N-Gage QD makes a sizeable showing, which is pretty respectable until you run just "n-gage," which nets a response of over 4 million. Since we're trying to compare next generation unreleased and just-released hardware, though, I left those results out. The Gizm(welovepigs)ondo is just a blip on the radar, in part because of the recent name change, and in part because it is doomed to failure. The Tapwave Zodiac does fare any better, which is a bit disappointing. Time to rally the troops, Tapwave.

The next Google Buzz Index, where we see which of the possible names for the second iteration of Microsoft's Xbox have the highest buzz, is after the jump.

Google expands Web index as Yahoo begins
to cut ties with longtime partner

Google expands Web index as Yahoo begins
to cut ties with longtime partner 02/18/2004 01:00 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Feb 18 2004 5:08AM GMT

Stock-Index Futures in U.S. Rise as
Amazon.com, Google, Ford Shares Gain

Stock-Index Futures in U.S. Rise as
Amazon.com, Google, Ford Shares Gain 12/28/2004 09:09 AM
Bloomberg Dec 28 2004 1:24PM GMT

The amount of office space that
corporations allocate to their libraries
has fallen by 8.36% over the past five
years, according to a new survey of
corporate libraries "Corporate Library
Benchmarks, 2004-05 Edition" ISBN:
1-57440-069-X.

The amount of office space that
corporations allocate to their libraries
has fallen by 8.36% over the past five
years, according to a new survey of
corporate libraries "Corporate Library
Benchmarks, 2004-05 Edition" ISBN:
1-57440-069-X. 09/03/2004 02:51 AM
Reports on results of a major survey of corporate and other business libraries. Gives extensive data on management policies and practices and details on spending trends for salaries, electronic and print materials, and library services. [PRWEB Sep 3, 2004]

Update Allegra : Google Index Update
2-2-2005

Update Allegra : Google Index Update
2-2-2005 02/05/2005 09:42 PM
Members have been seeing wildly fluctuating results on multiple data centers for 24 hrs.

Merge old iPhoto libraries on CD with
iPhoto 5 libraries

Merge old iPhoto libraries on CD with
iPhoto 5 libraries 03/19/2005 02:40 AM
I had several iPhoto libraries burned to CD backups from iPhoto 3 or 4 that I wanted to merge with my nearly complete iPhoto 5 library. However, because I burned the libraries directly to CD from the Finder or Toast, and not ...

2D Graphics Libraries

2D Graphics Libraries 05/05/2004 07:45 PM

While platforms these days have fairly good 2D graphics support like Quartz on OSX, GDI+ on XP, and , and Gnome Canvas, developers like me often have to use third-party libraries for whatever reasons.  On Win32, for example, GDI+ support is missing in legacy platforms which means either giving up on fancy graphics, redistributing GDI+ binaries, use a third party library, or writing one yourself.  Writing one yourself is fun (I have done it a couple of times over 20 years) but, unless it offers some unique features, you'll always end up migrating to a third party library.

BTW, Flash has an excellent 2D graphics engine but it's lacks an API so it's like a sports car without a driving wheel.  Yes, you can embed the Flash ActiveX and generate SWF on-the-fly but it's unwieldy for dynamic interaction and even handling gets tricky.  Embedding Adobe SVG ActiveX is just as unwieldy if not more.

While there are proprietary 2D engines out there, typically written by a few guys at a small company, they tend to disappear within a couple of years, either bought by companies (i.e. Apple, Adobe, Macromind, and Microsoft), or abandoned out of lack of interest or workable revenue model.  Besides, they charge fairly steep fees so I tend to avoid them.

Out of all the freely available 2D libraries out there, Libart stands out in features and quality. It offers fast anti-aliased rendering and it's use in Gnome Canvas over the years means most of the bugs have already been stepped on.  Libart is also used to drive librsvg, a SVG engine, and Java 2D, Java's graphics API, although Sun made extensive changes to tap hardware acceleration.  While Libart can and has been used cross-platform, it's not exactly cakewalk to use in non-Linix platofrms.  Cairo has some interesting features and rising interest could mean it will replace Libart someday, but it's still in development.

Third-party 2D graphics library I really like these days is Anti-Grain Geometry (AGG) which, although dormant for the last two years, has been rejuvenated with the released of version 2.1.  AGG is written in C++ and uses templates extensively like ATL does.  AGG is lightweight, very fast, flexible, and full of features.  It even comes with a partial implementation of SVG viewer as an example.  AGG supports Win32, X11, and SDL as is.  It doesn't yet support features variable stroke effects like Creature House's Expression 3 engine and Fractal Design's Painter support but then it's just me being unreasonable. :-)

I should note that subpixel graphics was first done 20 years ago in Word Handler to display 70 columns of hi-res text on Apple II.Silicon Valley Systems, the company that published Word Handler, was based just 5 minutes from where I live now and I enjoy fond memories of working there every time I pass by the old office on El Camino.  I guess everybody remembers their first job.  LCD screens were just starting to replace LED on calculators at the time, so Steve Gibson and Microsoft ClearType can claim to be the first to use subpixel graphics on LCD screen.  Lenny Elekman, where are you now?

Libraries and the Internet

Libraries and the Internet 12/19/2004 03:00 PM
Kudos to Google and its new university allies -- including my alma mater, the University of Michigan, as well as Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford -- for their exciting project to open the stacks (Wall Street Journal, via Paul Kedrosky). It's a great day for the dissemination of knowledge! Bloggers from these institutions are relaying the emails received from their administrators: ...

slack-get 0.2 (Libraries)

slack-get 0.2 (Libraries) 05/04/2004 04:41 PM
A tool like 'apt-get' for Slackware.

Merlin Libraries

Merlin Libraries 06/06/2004 05:02 AM
Merlin Libraries v0.1.103 (unstable) Released
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