October 6, 2006

Google's Book Project Gets Its First Non-English Partner

By STU WOO

The Complutense University of Madrid announced last week that it was joining Google's controversial book-digitization project, giving the Internet-search giant its first partner in the effort from a non-English-speaking country.

The university will work with Google to convert hundreds of thousands of works, including books by Miguel de Cervantes and Pedro Calderón de la Barca, into fully searchable electronic texts. Complutense houses Spain's largest university library, with

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