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January 7, 2005

Google Will Digitize and Search Millions of Books From 5 Top Research Libraries

By SCOTT CARLSON and JEFFREY R. YOUNG

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Five of the world's largest libraries have joined Google in a herculean effort to digitize millions of books and make every sentence searchable.

The project involves libraries at Harvard and Stanford Universities, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and the University

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Google Adds First Scanned Library Books to Search Index, and Says Copyrighted Works Will Follow - November 18, 2005
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