Open Libraries “… are signs of life and hope: They are the cornerstone of democracy”

Posts from July 2006

ALA 2006: Google Book Search

Ben Bunnell, Manager of Google Book Search and author of an upcoming Last Byte column in the July NetConnect (no link yet), described how Google cofounders Larry Page and Marissa Mayer originally conceived of the book scanning project while they were in graduate school at Stanford. Using a metronome, they estimated that a 300 page [...]


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