How Google Is Solving Its Book Problem
Last Updated on Thursday, 4 November 2010 01:21 Written by External Post Thursday, 4 November 2010 01:21
Pickens writes “Alexis Madrigal writes in the Atlantic that Google’s famous PageRank algorithm can’t be deployed tothrough the 15 million books that Google has already scanned because books don’t link to each other in the way that webpages do. Instead
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How Google Counted The World’s 129 Million Books
Last Updated on Sunday, 8 August 2010 07:20 Written by External Post Sunday, 8 August 2010 07:20
In a blog post published this week, search mammoth Google explained the deep and thoroughly elaborate algorithm used by its literary offshoot, Google Books, to count just how many books exist in the world, right now.
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Spring Design’s e-reader taps into Google Books
Last Updated on Tuesday, 5 January 2010 05:15 Written by External Post Tuesday, 5 January 2010 05:15
Spring Design’s Alex e-reader (Credit: Spring Design) Through an agreement announced Tuesday, the Alex e-book reader from Spring Design will be able to access and download more than a million books at the Google Books project. Alex, a dual-screen
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