Google and U.C. sign contract to digitize books
Submitted by rochelle on August 9, 2006 - 2:33pm
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Anonymous Patron writes " CNET News.com: Google has added another partner to its controversial library-book scanning project--the University of California, which is also working with a team led by Yahoo, Microsoft and the Internet Archive."

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"There can only be one search engine..."
With apologies to Highlander for messing with their signature line, I saw this bit in the CNET news article -- the first time I think I've seen direct reference to search engine restrictions:
I can understand Google not wanting this content to appear in, say, Yahoo's engine. But if true, that would severely limit what a library partner can do with the copies of the images, wouldn't it? And does this restriction apply to both the in-house users of the partner libraries as well as us here on the outside?
And in California's situation, it likely means a very rigid segregation of content digitized under the OCA program (which wouldn't have the search engine restriction) and content they get back from Google under its program.