Google to finally digitize libraries!

[digitalwanderer]

Yup Google is going to digitize Oxford's library and make it searchable on the web...and it's about bloody time too.

Google, the operator of the world's most popular Internet search service, plans to announce an agreement today with some of the nation's leading research libraries and Oxford University to begin converting their holdings into digital files that would be freely searchable over the Web.

It may be only a step on a long road toward the long-predicted global virtual library. But the collaboration of Google and research institutions that also include Harvard, the University of Michigan, Stanford and the New York Public Library is a major stride in an ambitious Internet effort by various parties. The goal is to expand the Web beyond its current valuable, if eclectic, body of material and create a digital card catalog and searchable library for the world's books, scholarly papers and special collections.

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

I shouldn't have to remind you people that corporations are either being controlled by the Illuminati(IE: Halliburton) or are being fooled into doing the wishes of the Illuminati.

I hope I don't have to remind people to open their eyes.

 

[London Geezer]

I shouldn't have to remind you people that corporations are either being controlled by the Illuminati(IE: Halliburton) or are being fooled into doing the wishes of the Illuminati.

I hope I don't have to remind people to open their eyes.

SHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What are you CRAZY?!?!?!

 

[Diplo]

Yeah, I read this today - bloody great idea and about time. This is exactly what the internet was made for (well, that and pr0n).

 

[ZoinKs!]

Are books obsolete?

 

[London Geezer]

Are books obsolete?

...No but not everyone can afford to fly to Oxford every so often to have a look at the real things, strictly speaking of the few antiques.

I think this is a good thing.

Personally, i can't read a lot on a computer, i certainly wouldn't be able to read a book on my monitor screen.

 

[silence]

Are books obsolete?

...No but not everyone can afford to fly to Oxford every so often to have a look at the real things, strictly speaking of the few antiques.

I think this is a good thing.

Personally, i can't read a lot on a computer, i certainly wouldn't be able to read a book on my monitor screen.

well....i heard printers are pretty cheap lately

 

[London Geezer]

Are books obsolete?

...No but not everyone can afford to fly to Oxford every so often to have a look at the real things, strictly speaking of the few antiques.

I think this is a good thing.

Personally, i can't read a lot on a computer, i certainly wouldn't be able to read a book on my monitor screen.

well....i heard printers are pretty cheap lately

Ink aint.

 

[silence]

Ink aint.

what i find really weird/idiotic is that u can buy low-end printer with 2 cartridges and then when you use all the ink...its cheaper to buy same kind of printer then 2 more cartridges....that are completly same as those u got with printer.

so its better to buy low end printers then new ink....

 

[London Geezer]

Ink aint.

what i find really weird/idiotic is that u can buy low-end printer with 2 cartridges and then when you use all the ink...its cheaper to buy same kind of printer then 2 more cartridges....that are completly same as those u got with printer.

so its better to buy low end printers then new ink....

So true........ Or it's just better to save your docs on a USB memory stick thing and print it at work!!! PERFECT!!

 

[silence]

So true........ Or it's just better to save your docs on a USB memory stick thing and print it at work!!! PERFECT!!

ROFL....so true.....