Google received some unfortunate news today, with the U.S. Department of Justice formally announcing the investigation of the $125 million settlement Google made with the Author’s Guild to pay authors a nominal fee for copyrighted works it has scanned and made available on the Web. The settlement has drawn its fair share of critics, including Jeff Bezos. But Google keeps on plugging away, making its book search better and better.
For instance, Google Books recently launched a plethora of new and innovative features to make the product easier for consumers to use, such as embeddable previews and better in-book search. Today, it added one more useful feature relating to search: a visual cue on the right margin showing the pages throughout a book where a search term appears.
When you search within a book, a page appears in a window, with a scrollbar on the right. Little rectangles will appear in the margin beside the scrollbar to show you where your results are located. When your mouse hovers over one of the rectangles indicating where a search term can be found in the book, you’ll get a preview of the search results and the option of jumping directly to that respective page by clicking on the rectangle.
With the previous search function, it wasn’t as easy to find the exact location of the results in a book. With this simple tweak, Google has improved the visual display of search functions, helping users navigate results in a more organized and efficient way. The DOJ will probably hold that against it.
Ooh! Just like in Chrome!
This adds monopolistic advantage of google search. DOJ should see to it that goog hands over indexes to compititors at reasonable price comparable to their deal with book people.
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Cool feature. Makes it much easier.
How in the world is google getting away with only paying this settlement?
Google Books needs to be shut down and banned.
Google is engaging in blatent, blatent, blatent, and just one more time for emphasis blatent copyright infringement.
Google is so on the wrong side of being right on this issue!!!
Amazon has been doing basically the same thing for a long time now. Most books on Google Books aren’t readable in full, leaving only parts viewable, and all have links on the sidebar where you can find them in a local library or order them online.
This is no different than being able to peruse a book while sitting at a bookstore, then choose to buy it or not. If Google should be punished for this, then Borders and Barnes and Noble should shrinkwrap all their books and charge people just for cracking them open.
Your point is noted and I don’t disagree with what you are saying, but Google is scanning many educational books that cannot be found at your local bookstore.
Books that pertain to higher education can be found on Google in their totality and the companies producing these books will be forced out of business once students realize that they don’t have to pay for their books.
Book publishers will be forced to close their doors. The only reason this problem is not huge at this point is that most people don’t realize that they can find any book they want at Google Books.
Books are only shown in their totality if they are out of copyright or the publishers have agreed by joining the Google’s Partner Program.
You have got to be kidding me! You and the RIAA are obviously on the same page. Innovation will actually bring more attention than anything imagined. Access changes the world.
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Google is getting better and better
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What will become of the coffee table books? Not the kitschy ones, but the fine ones that were like walking into a museum? Oh well.
Isn’t this what Surface is for?
Google books is basically unusable due to the limited previews. Limited previews are required by copyright law, and this is what is preventing having the archive of all human recorded knowldege published online. We can go into a public library, check out and read any of thousands of books, but we cannot do the same online due to copyright laws. The quality of information is much higher in books compared to the typical web pages, and the author as the base of that expertise wants to protect his/her authority & income through copyright protection & royalties. Amazon wants to sell ebooks for $35, when they cost nothing to produce from the original. Copyright – based on printing press, and digital distribution to be renegotiated, similar to music. Summary: having a complete library of all books ever published online and freely available for anyone to view will become a fundamental part of society in the near future, same for art, music, movies, tv…
Google Book project was DOA anyway. Now DOJ will give them a good excuse.
I like Google book as it launched very good and innovative features which are user friendly and adding new feature is really good .
In a country where education is a business, books cannot be free. It would be counter productive to raise the educational levels of free loaders in general.
How many citizens know where Bremen or Tallahassee are, or what percentage of U.S.A. born persons can spell either of these names, is a prime example of successful school business.
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