Archive for February, 2009
Friday, February 27th, 2009
Yale Image Finder is a search engine for searching medical articles in PubMed Central for images. YIF is notable because it searches for text that is contained in images, many of which are charts and graphs with embedded "text" describing the data being presented. The “text” in these images, as ...
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
The slides and data from Jon Orwant's presentation on Google Book Search at TOC, that were not available when I wrote previously, have now been put up on the O'Reilly site. [these have been removed, see comment below] This is made up of 59 PDF slides, covering a range of ...
Posted in Google Book Search, Long Tail, PicsYes, Publishing, TOC, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Friday, February 20th, 2009
Jon Orwant, from Google Book Search, made a presentation at the O'Reilly Tools Of Change (TOC) for Publishing Conference in New York last week, which I did not attend. Apparently Orwant presented some numeric data about the use of Google Books, but the data has yet to be spread to ...
Posted in Google Book Search, PicsNo, Publishing, TOC, Uncategorized | 8 Comments »
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
When a link is clicked to a specific page in GBS Mobile, the page that always opens is the entry page for the book. There doesn't seem to be a way to link successfully to specific pages. I've tried this in several examples, and have had the same experience in ...
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
There's been a lot of buzz about the announcement last week of mobile access to Google Book Search public-domain books. I've been looking hard for nitty-gritty details of how it works, though, and haven't found much. The best is in comments by bowerbird on an announcement article on toc.oreilly.com. It's ...
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Friday, February 6th, 2009
In a recent NY Times article that I blogged on, Dan Clancy, the engineering director for Google book search, is cited as saying "every month users view at least 10 pages of more than half of the one million out-of-copyright books that Google has scanned into its servers." Remarkably, this ...
Posted in Google Book Search, Libraries, Long Tail, PicsYes, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
This article is generally unremarkable, although it does have some good quotes from prominent players. Otherwise, just another article in NY Times on Google Books. But it has two notable features -- The first is the quote from Google's Dan Clancy, in the second paragraph, stating a remarkably high volume ...
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Adam Hodgkin, in Google Pictures and Google Books, wonders why Google has chosen to put Prado paintings in Google Earth rather than in Google Images. In December I asked a similar question about Google's putting Life Magazine pictures in Google Images, but putting other picture-laden magazines in Google Books. And, ...
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