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![The British Library has reached a deal with search engine Google about 250,000 texts dating back to the 18th Century.
It will allow readers to view, search and copy the out-of-copyright works at no charge on both the library and Google books websites. […] The works selected to be digitised date from between 1700 and 1870, and the project will take some years to complete, with Google covering the costs of digitising. Google has similar partnerships with about 40 libraries around the world. […] Director of external relations at Google Peter Barron said: “What’s powerful about the technology available to us today isn’t just its ability to preserve history and culture for posterity, but also its ability to bring it to life in new ways.” […] The digitised works are just a small fraction of the library’s collection which totals more than 150 million items representing every age of written civilisation, including books, journals, manuscripts, maps, stamps, music, patents, photographs, newspapers and sound recordings in all written and spoken languages.
via futuramb:
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The British Library has reached a deal with search engine Google about 250,000 texts dating back to the 18th Century.
It will allow readers to view, search and copy the out-of-copyright works at no charge on both the library and Google books websites. […] The works selected to be digitised date from between 1700 and 1870, and the project will take some years to complete, with Google covering the costs of digitising. Google has similar partnerships with about 40 libraries around the world. […] Director of external relations at Google Peter Barron said: “What’s powerful about the technology available to us today isn’t just its ability to preserve history and culture for posterity, but also its ability to bring it to life in new ways.” […] The digitised works are just a small fraction of the library’s collection which totals more than 150 million items representing every age of written civilisation, including books, journals, manuscripts, maps, stamps, music, patents, photographs, newspapers and sound recordings in all written and spoken languages.
via futuramb:
The most popular letters according to Google
Wow. It’s easy to think of Google as part of the furniture these days and focus on the new wunderkind Facebook. However, this shows that Google is showing no signs of stopping it’s rise in importance.
Google Now Accounts for 6.4% of Internet Traffic
The Internet is growing fast, but Google is growing even faster. According to online security company Arbor Networks, Google now represents an average 6.4% of all Internet traffic.
This is a new record for Google, as it gained more than 1% of all Internet traffic share since January. Now, only one global ISP handles more traffic, and a lot of that traffic is – unsurprisingly – Google’s traffic.
» via Mashable
I remember life before Google (and Excite, AltaVista et al). It was fine. I prefer life WITH Google though ;-)
Google’s Nine Year Shopping Spree, Illustrated
(via TechCrunch & ilovecharts)
Google have experimented a little more with it’s Homepage today…. interesting to see this come out of iGoogle and onto the main page. I’m so used to seeing the clean white space - however, I do like this one….it’s the same light from Habitat that I have in a room in my house :-)
Google before you Tweet, is the new Think before you Speak
Google Inc. Announces Purchase of Death Star Plans from Galactic Empire
Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (June 16, 2010) - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the purchase of the Death Star plans from the Galactic Empire further tightening their grip on the galaxy. Google’s philosophy stands much inline with that of the Galactic Empire in that they strive to “rule through fear of force rather than force itself.” Obtaining the Death Star plans brings Google even closer to their zenith.
Google is unsure when they will begin construction of the moon-sized space station. Upon completion, whenever it may be, Google says they plan to demonstrate the full power of their super-weapon by destroying anything at the completely random, unrelated location of Redmond, WA.
Linus Upson, Director of Engineering, Google Inc. says, “we see this as a fundamental shift in the way people think.” Clearly referring to the aforementioned philosophy of the Galactic Empire. The Death Stars will be “built upon other open source projects that are making significant contributions.” The other open source projects Upson refers to remain unknown (Perhaps Google Wave?) and the significant contributions can only be referring to the meaningless destruction of whatever lies at the utterly purposeless location of Redmond, WA.
The top-secret weapon is being guarded 24 hours a day and seven days a week by Stormtroopers of the Galactic Empire as part of the purchase agreement between the two super-powers. Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google Inc. stressed the importance that the plans being guarded by Stormtroopers citing that “only Imperial stormtroopers are so precise.”
Google plans to continually develop additional features for the Death Star. They plan to include turbolaser batteries, ion cannons, tractor beam projectors and hangar / docking bays which will contain assault shuttles, blastboats, Strike cruisers, land vehicles, support ships, and TIE fighters. Google will also start a hiring boon now in order to man the Death Star - they’ll need gunners, troops, stormtroopers, ship support staff, pilots and support crew. Google clearly understands that that their galaxywide success results from their globally diverse workforce. In every Google office, you will find challenging projects, smart people and robots with potential to change the world; in this case destroy stuff and make people scared.
The announcement to purchase the Death Star plans comes just a few weeks after Microsoft and Yahoo! agreed on an Internet search partnership to take on Google. According to the Associated Press “Microsoft finally persuaded Yahoo to surrender control of the Internet’s second most popular search engine and join it in a daunting battle — taking on the overwhelming dominance of Google in the online advertising market.” The partnership couldn’t have come at a better time for Microsoft who was rumored that their fire had gone out of the universe.
Speculators agree that Google’s latest maneuver is in direct retaliation for the said Internet search partnership. Time will tell if purchasing the Death Star plans will turn into fruition for Google. To date, not a single Google product has failed and all have received high critical acclaim. Google has already started to design a Death Star skin for their iGoogle interface, questions have already flooded Google Answers, users are looking for Death Star related coupons using Google Coupons and many are perplexed why they cant find some pieces of the Death Star plans anywhere in Google Labs.
There are no plans to move Google Headquarters from Silicon Valley to the Death Star.
(via flustercuck)
“It’s hard to grasp the breathtaking scale of the epic war between Microsoft, Google and Apple. Billions upon billions of dollars. Entire industries at stake.”
via thedeafdivide and ilovecharts
Your brand isn’t what you say it is, it’s what Google says it is
