Google book search
- Posted by Kati on November 11th, 2003 filed in Everything else
I was equally delighted with the whole world wide blogland when amazon unveiled their “Search in the books” feature, but it looks like they are not gonna be on top of bookahlic minds for too long because Google is looking for book content. Apparently they are in talks with publishers to offer full-text book search capability. The user would be able to search a database of full-text books, and with the option to buy individual titles from a source the publishers specify. (Interesting pay-for-peformance mktg aspect of the deal: Google would be a super-affiliate of the merchants it links to.)
This functionality would make Google the ultimate knowledge base on the planet, if they can build up a quality database. Looking forward to it!