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Difference between Google Book Project and Open Content Alliance

By Lauren Gelman on February 08, 2007 at 12:37 PM

This is a nice piece that describes the difference between the Google Book Project and the Internet Archive/Open Content Alliance Project to make book texts search-able.

Bottom line: Libraries are agreeing that the books Google scans in will only be available through Google's search index. The Internet Archive Project will make books it scans available through any search engine.