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ResearchBuzz on Google Print

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When I think of Amazon I think of retail. It’s sensible that they arranged their “Search Inside the Book” feature with contemporary publishers and volumes. When I think of Google I think of search. It doesn’t make sense to me that they’re bypassing the huge number of valuable, institutionally-created, full-text online libraries in favor of going after the same kind of content that Amazon is indexing. [ResearchBuzz]

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