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From the News Desk
Friday, 15. December 2006
Google Helps Users Search for Patents
Google has shipped the Google Patents Search, it lets users to search for US patents by keyword, patent number, inventor and filing date. The search works on the same lines of Google Book Search.
Google provided access through its Book Search service to books that are in the public domain. The service will allow web surfers to download PDF files of the books for later reading, to run searches or to print them on paper. Until now, the service only allowed people to read the out-of-copyright books online.
The Google deal will build on an existing service, which allows people to read out-of-copyright books online. Google supports the service by showing its small, keyword-generated text ads on search-results pages.
The download initiative does not include books under copyright. For these titles, Book Search will display basic bibliographic information and, in many cases, small snippets of text surrounding a search term, unless it has permission from the publisher to show more.
Google's Book Search service is the product of its Books Library Project, which is digitising books from major libraries around the world in order to make them searchable online. Its partners include noted universities such as Harvard and Oxford. Google also is conducting a pilot project with the US Library of Congress.
Gale Etschmaier, Associate University Librarian for Public Services at Gelman Library said that Google's method of scanning entire books and access to millions of texts makes it easier for students and faculty to conduct research.
Commenting on the Google Patents Search, Google Software Engineer Doug Banks on the company’s blog writes, “It's a natural extension of our mission to make this public-domain government information more easily accessible using Google’s search technology".
Google had expanded its Google News service by adding an archive of articles spanning more than 200 years allowing users to look up articles from publications that date back to the18th century. "The goal is to help users explore history as it unfolded,'' said Anurag Acharya, an engineer at Google who worked on the archive project.
The archive can be found by typing news. google.com/archivesearch or through a link on news.google.com, will also include snippets of news articles and other documents from research companies that require paid subscriptions like LexisNexis, Factiva and HighBeam Research.
To retrieve an entire document from any paid service, a person will have to pay a fee. "We'll see increased traffic from Google tomorrow,'' predicted Patrick Spain, chief executive officer of HighBeam Research. HighBeam charges USD 19.95 a month to view the full text of approximately 35 million documents from more than 3,000 sources, plus other services.
In a move similar to its Google Book Search, the historical archive will allow users to read extracts from a subscription site's articles offering interested readers the chance to click on to that site and purchase the full article if they wish.
This move is instigating a lot of fear and criticism among traditional companies. In February, the World Association of Newspapers said it was considering legal action against Google News. It argued that the global aggregation service, which displays news headlines and a snippet of text on Google's own site, was "building a new medium on the backs of our industry, without paying for any of the content".
Jim Gerber, Google's content partnerships director, argued that the extension did not pose a threat to news companies. "The gut instinct may seem like it is positioned as competitive to aggregators but, as you can see, we have aggregator partners on board. At the end of the day, this points traffic back to partners and that can be very valuable," he said.
Articles in the archive will be available in multiple languages. However, Jim Gerber, the director of content partnerships at the Mountain View company, said Google has not yet made agreements with foreign news providers to include their digital archives.
Google is also not including blogs, because of the dramatic differences in quality that characterise work in the blogosphere. "Our goal is to focus on history, and history has largely been recorded by traditional news services,'' Acharya said.
Acharya also said that Google might decide to include advertising in the archive in the future.
Google provided access through its Book Search service to books that are in the public domain. The service will allow web surfers to download PDF files of the books for later reading, to run searches or to print them on paper. Until now, the service only allowed people to read the out-of-copyright books online.
The Google deal will build on an existing service, which allows people to read out-of-copyright books online. Google supports the service by showing its small, keyword-generated text ads on search-results pages.
The download initiative does not include books under copyright. For these titles, Book Search will display basic bibliographic information and, in many cases, small snippets of text surrounding a search term, unless it has permission from the publisher to show more.
Google's Book Search service is the product of its Books Library Project, which is digitising books from major libraries around the world in order to make them searchable online. Its partners include noted universities such as Harvard and Oxford. Google also is conducting a pilot project with the US Library of Congress.
Gale Etschmaier, Associate University Librarian for Public Services at Gelman Library said that Google's method of scanning entire books and access to millions of texts makes it easier for students and faculty to conduct research.
Commenting on the Google Patents Search, Google Software Engineer Doug Banks on the company’s blog writes, “It's a natural extension of our mission to make this public-domain government information more easily accessible using Google’s search technology".
Google had expanded its Google News service by adding an archive of articles spanning more than 200 years allowing users to look up articles from publications that date back to the18th century. "The goal is to help users explore history as it unfolded,'' said Anurag Acharya, an engineer at Google who worked on the archive project.
The archive can be found by typing news. google.com/archivesearch or through a link on news.google.com, will also include snippets of news articles and other documents from research companies that require paid subscriptions like LexisNexis, Factiva and HighBeam Research.
To retrieve an entire document from any paid service, a person will have to pay a fee. "We'll see increased traffic from Google tomorrow,'' predicted Patrick Spain, chief executive officer of HighBeam Research. HighBeam charges USD 19.95 a month to view the full text of approximately 35 million documents from more than 3,000 sources, plus other services.
In a move similar to its Google Book Search, the historical archive will allow users to read extracts from a subscription site's articles offering interested readers the chance to click on to that site and purchase the full article if they wish.
This move is instigating a lot of fear and criticism among traditional companies. In February, the World Association of Newspapers said it was considering legal action against Google News. It argued that the global aggregation service, which displays news headlines and a snippet of text on Google's own site, was "building a new medium on the backs of our industry, without paying for any of the content".
Jim Gerber, Google's content partnerships director, argued that the extension did not pose a threat to news companies. "The gut instinct may seem like it is positioned as competitive to aggregators but, as you can see, we have aggregator partners on board. At the end of the day, this points traffic back to partners and that can be very valuable," he said.
Articles in the archive will be available in multiple languages. However, Jim Gerber, the director of content partnerships at the Mountain View company, said Google has not yet made agreements with foreign news providers to include their digital archives.
Google is also not including blogs, because of the dramatic differences in quality that characterise work in the blogosphere. "Our goal is to focus on history, and history has largely been recorded by traditional news services,'' Acharya said.
Acharya also said that Google might decide to include advertising in the archive in the future.
