Google Print Goes Live

Google opened the door to its controversial online library late Thursday with the launch of a book-specific search page. Print.Google.Com makes official the search goliath’s project to digitize the world’s books.

Google had begun working with University of Michigan, Harvard, Stanford and Oxford Universities, and the New York City Public Library to digitize public-domain books in their collections. However, unlike the negotiations with book publishers for the print search service, which launched in beta in December, dealings with the libraries were kept under wraps.

Search Engine Watch: With most Google Print and material from Amazon’s “Search Inside the Book,” you can only view a selected number of pages over a 30 day period as determined by the publisher. You’re also unable to annotate or print…most of this material.

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