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Google Books Project
A Lecture by Dr. Nirmal Kumar Swain
Dr. Nirmal Kumar Swain
Assistant Professor
Banasthali University
Rajasthan  304022
nkswainlisfaculty@gmail.com
Google Books Project
A Lecture at Refresher Course ,
DAVV, Indore
17-18, Feb, 2012
Google Confidential and Proprietary
Overview
 Why and how Google scans books
 Challenges
 The Future
Why and How Google Scans Books
Google Confidential and Proprietary
Googles mission
Online content
Billions of web pages
Offline content
Billions of items becoming
indexed
To organize the worlds information and make
it universally accessible and useful.
Google Confidential and Proprietary
Book Team's Mission
To organize the worlds books and make them
universally accessible and useful.
Organize the world's books  About the Book
Make accessible  Limited previews from
publishers & authors (30,000 publisher partners)
Make accessible  Embedded Viewer for Libraries
Google Confidential and Proprietary
Google Books in a nutshell
Challenges
Adiversityofdates
 18??
 [196-?]
 1957/8
 late14thcentury
 finitaquartononasJanuarias[1490]
 menseSeptembri:AnnoMillesimoq[ui]ngentesimo
decimonono
 menseiulio,annoM.D.XXXX
 廬廩彜 (Hebrewyear5751=Gregorian1990/1CE)
 戞截戳截 (eitherIslamicyear1373AH=Gregorian1953/4CEor
Persianyear1373AP=Gregorian1994/5CE)
TheFuture
Buy Anywhere:
PurchasedirectlyonGoogleBooks,devices,retail
partnersites,affiliates,andbrickandmortarstores.
Read Anywhere:
UserscanreadeBooksondesktop,tablets,iPhone,
Androidphone,andeInkReaders.Cloudstorageand
cloudsync.
More to Read:
Targetis400K+paidbooksandover2Mfree public
domainbooks.
GoogleEditions
Booksasacorpusofhumanknowledge
 Understandonebook
 Understandallbooks
 Understandrelations
betweenbooks
Organize the world's books and make them
universally accessible and useful
Thank You!

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