The search continues
06 February 2004. Inspired by .
The search engine wars are leading to an improvement in all kinds of information. Just as Amazon now provides a searchable text of thousands of books in their database, according to the New York Times (turn to page 3), Google is doing more than just writing better algorithms to list the data better. It's actively searching out new data sources itself.
"Google has embarked on an ambitious secret effort known as Project Ocean, according to a person involved with the operation. With the cooperation of Stanford University, the company now plans to digitize the entire collection of the vast Stanford Library published before 1923, which is no longer limited by copyright restrictions. The project could add millions of digitized books that would be available exclusively via Google."
Something Trevor would clearly approve of.