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27 December 2003

Search the Printed Word With Google

Thanks to Google, you can now search the printed word. Google Print BETA was launched last week and enables searchers to browse the contents of offline books via keywords, just like regular web pages.

To use the service, simply go to Google and type in 'print.google.com' followed by your search topic. Results will feature a tag reading "BOOK - BETA". Clicking on these links will take you to excerpts from related books, plus links to retail sites from where you can purchase them, e.g. Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million. Despite the links to retail sites, Google claims it does not profit if users buy a book as a result of a search.

The content for Google Print BETA comes from thousands of books, individually scanned by software.

However the idea is not a new one. Amazon.com launched a similar "search inside the book" feature a few months ago. Amazon's version is thought to be extensive, featuring some 120,000 titles from 190 publishers, or 33 million pages of searchable text, whereas Google has not yet revealed the number of titles indexed by their service.

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