Tuesday, December 14, 2004

Google + Harvard = Great information resource

From boingboing:

"Battelle's scoop on Google's University library project
John Battelle has the scoop on Google's "Project Ocean." From an email he received:
"Harvard University is embarking on a collaboration with Google that could harness Google's search technology to provide to both the Harvard community and the larger public a revolutionary new information location tool to find materials available in libraries. In the coming months, Google will collaborate with Harvard's libraries on a pilot project to digitize a substantial number of the 15 million volumes held in the University's extensive library system. Google will provide online access to the full text of those works that are in the public domain. In related agreements, Google will launch similar projects with Oxford, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the New York Public Library." "

And the MPAA are about to sue BitTorrent and eDonkey.

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