Google Books is a very popular service of Google that is being used by thousands of users all over the world daily. Through this feature the public can have access to millions of free books on all the subjects and topics and thus form a very important source of learning. Through the use of this feature you can attain access to many books from your own PC and you don't have to go to libraries or other sources to get what you need.

The service of the Google book search was introduced in 2004 as an effective tool to search for full text books. Google has created a large data base of books by scanning them and placing them on the servers. These books are converted to text using the features of optical character recognition. The digital library of Google is one of the largest libraries in the world. The book search may be used a specific feature from the home page of the Google or the relevant books that are shown in the general search can be used.

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If you didn't know already, Google has a book search facitility that helps people search for books online. You can search for some of your favourite authors and titles, and can even obtain copies of it in digital format. Since much of Google's revenue comes from paid advertising, it still manages to find time to make organic search as relevant as possible. Google wants to be able to show the user exactly what they are looking for. With an index full of trillions of web pages from all over the world, it aims to show the user exactly what they are looking for.

One of the ways that Google is trying to expand its information offering is by adding more data to its search databases. Book enthusiasts can scan books into Google Book Search and this goes straight into the index for people to search. Users can do this by using a normal barcode scanner or typing in the title of the book, or entering the ISBN number. Once Google has formed a profile of the type of books you like to re... [more]

Saying Google Inc. had overstretched, a federal judge on Tuesday rejected a deal between the giant search engine and lawyers for authors and publishers that would have let the company make money presiding over the world's largest digital library.
U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin in Manhattan said the creation of a universal library would benefit many but would "simply go too far." He rejected a $125 million settlement that was opposed by Google rivals, consumer watchdogs, academic experts, literary agents and even foreign governments.
Google has already scanned more than 15 million books for the project.
Chin said the settlement that the company reached with U.S. authors and publishers would "grant Google significant rights to exploit entire books, without permission of the copyright owners."
The deal gives Google "a significant advantage over competitors, rewarding it for engaging in wholesale copying of copyrighted works without permission, while releasing claims... [more]