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The articles alludes to it at the end: the "corpus" of scanned books is incredibly valuable to a big data company like google and gives them a real edge against
by sebisebi 10y ago
The articles alludes to it at the end: the "corpus" of scanned books is incredibly valuable to a big data company like google and gives them a real edge against other companies.
- WalterBright 10y agoIf it is incredibly valuable, other companies can do it too, and sell access to the corpus to other companies.
- _rpd 10y agoSeems a natural investment for Amazon.
- greglindahl 10y agoHere's Amazon's "search inside" program, which started in 2001: http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Search-Inside-the-Book-FullText-on-Amazon-16587.asp http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Search-Inside-the...
- ot 10y agoWouldn't they also run into the licensing problem, even more so if they try to sell access?