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Google Book Search – Librarian Revolutionaries

November 23, 2005 Raymond de Villiers Book Reviews, Connection Economy, Future Trends, Innovation, Technology, Training and Education No Comments

I will use GoogleI have just been playing around with Google’s online book search & it is awesome.

They have indexed the actual content of millions of pages of books. When you run a search it actually returns the book to you. You can then go to the physical page in the book where the info is and read a few pages before & a few pages after [I think it is a total of 15 pages that you are able to view per book per search]. They are basically in the process of making libraries redundant.
To get to these pages [still in development form] run a normal search in Google and scroll to the bottom of the page. Click on the link that asks if you want to run the search in Google book search.

To quote Ace Ventura….”Yummy”

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