October 13th, 2006 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Dan Abbe, Google Book Search Support TeamToday is Friday the 13th, a day that’s supposed to bring bad luck. Throw in the fact that Halloween is fast approaching, and we’ll forgive you if you’re practically cowering under your monitor. I’m not…
October 12th, 2006 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Ben Bunnell, Library Partnership TeamToday, we announced a new partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to make a significant portion of their library collection searchable through Google Book Search. As a library partner manager,…
October 12th, 2006 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Ramsey Allington, Manager, Google Book Search Support TeamAs faithful readers of this blog know, we’re always on the lookout for interesting uses of Google Book Search, so I was excited to see this article by Jan Freeman of the Boston Globe…
October 6th, 2006 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Tom Turvey, Head, Google Book Search PartnershipsI’ve always loved reading the Google Zeitgeist report — a cumulative snapshot of popular queries that reveal a bit about the current human psyche. Elin Nordegren, the Swedish model who becam…
October 5th, 2006 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Dan Abbe, Google Book Search Support TeamAs we mentioned in our last post, we’re excited to be participating in this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair. It might have been in subliminal honor of this event that I started thinking about one of my favo…
October 4th, 2006 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Jessica Powell, European Corporate Communications ManagerStarting today, publishers, authors, and book lovers from around the world will gather in Frankfurt, Germany for the world’s largest book fair.The Google Book Search team will also be t…
October 2nd, 2006 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Arielle Reinstein, Associate Product Marketing ManagerEvery once in a while, we hear about an especially intriguing use of Google Book Search. The most recent example: this Top 10 list by Forbes Autos, which gives the company’s picks for the …
September 29th, 2006 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Jose Campon, Google Book Search Support Team…de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme…(At a village of la Mancha whose name I do not wish to remember…)I was only a kid the first time I heard those words, words that always bring to mind the im…
September 26th, 2006 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Jens Redmer, Head of Google Book Search, EuropeOut-of-copyright books previously only available to people with access to Madrid’s Complutense University Library, or the money to travel, will now be accessible to everyone with an Internet co…
September 25th, 2006 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Bethany Poole, Product Marketing ManagerThe other day I was looking for a favorite short story — William Faulkner’s very twisted “A Rose for Emily” — when I came across a number of books about Faulkner’s life. Intrigued, I started …
September 22nd, 2006 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Roland Lange, Strategic Partner Development ManagerMy whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence: An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.– F. S…
September 20th, 2006 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Jodi Healy, Library Partnership TeamRecently, we started including “Find this book in a library” links on more (a lot more!) books in Google Book Search to help readers locate nearby libraries where they can borrow titles of interest.These li…
September 12th, 2006 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Arielle Reinstein, Associate Product Marketing Manager It was in Jim Hosney’s 11th grade English class (aptly called “Great Books”) where I first read Faulkner, Joyce, Conrad, Ellison, and Nabokov. I remember getting lost in the description o…
September 7th, 2006 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Arielle Reinstein, Associate Product Marketing ManagerIn the main lobby at the Googleplex, there’s a display showing a three-dimensional globe, with exploding geysers of color representing search queries typed in by people around the world. I…
September 6th, 2006 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Laura Driussi, Strategic Partner ManagerGood news for policymakers, researchers and others looking for key government documents. Recently, DIANE Publishing, which reprints a wide variety of government publications, made all of its titles in G…