As Google Book Search Gets Better, Here Comes the Anti-Trust Regulators

SEOBizNiche — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:35:30 +0000

So while U.S. Anti-Trust Regulators are planning to investigate Googles deal with book publishers to settle copyright issues amounting to $125m, Google continues to make Book Search a better and worthwhile service for their users.If youve been following this issue which has been dragging on since perhaps the day Google Book Searchs inception, youd remember that Google has received so many criticisms because of this project. And so it is not surprising that Google would not bother the investigation that much.

So, anyway its something that is yet to happen so we might as well talk about the new feature of Google Book Search that we mentioned.

If you would recall, during the early part of May Google introduced searching inside books wherein the context of search results can be viewed, sorted by relevancy as well as flipped through while users are viewing books.

The new feature adds a cool feature via a scrollbar that appears when users search inside a book. Hints will be displayed if you hover on the scrollbar located at the right side of the search results page. These hints will enable you to preview where in the book the search term is located. You can then click on this annotation go to that part of the book.

And basically thats it. Just a simple enhancement and yet a useful one. Now its time to think about the anti-trust case.

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