You may have seen this on 60 Minutes last night, during a piece they were doing on Google. There's also been a fair amount of buzz on the 'net about this, but just in case you weren't aware...

Go to the Google page and type in "books about xyz", where xyz is anything you want (for instance, I tried "stonehenge" and then "submarines"). When your search results are returned, at or near the top will be a listing marked by several colorful books. These are links to online copies of books. But that's just surface cool, because this feature goes much farther.

Click on a listed book link, and you'll see the scanned pages of the book. But over on the left side is a search box. Yepper, the entire text of the books are searchable! How cool is that?

Go play and be amazed. Thank you Al Gore, for making this all possible.

Posted by: Ted at 12:15 PM | category: Links
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1 Wow! I had no idea! Thanks for passing that on!!! I only hope they have Max Born's Relativity 'cause I'm sick of checking iy out of the library every six months.

Posted by: Tuning Spork at January 04, 2005 09:21 PM (dqsg4)

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