__/ [ catherine yronwode ] on Friday 08 September 2006 00:43 \__
> Paul wrote:
>>
>> From : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5317942.stm
>>
>> Web giant Google is further expanding its online empire with the
>> launch of the Google News Archive Search.
>> The web-based tool allows users to explore existing digitised
>> newspaper articles spanning the last 200 years and more recent online
>> content.
>>
>> People using the search are shown results from both free and
>> subscription-based news outlets.
>>
>> Partners in the project include the websites of US newspaper the New
>> York Times and the Guardian from the UK.
>>
>> <snip />
>
> Hey, cool! Lookit me, i'm in the news!!! Yipeee!!!!! (And there's a
> couple about my ex-partner Peter Yronwode, too,)
>
> http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=yronwode&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1
>
> cat yronwode, ego-surfin' since 1994. :-)
There's a whole new world of opportunities now that Google open-sourced their
OCR library. Google takes advantages of book/paper scanning armies. Schmidt
said it may take 300 years to index all of the available knowledge that's on
print (or digital). Scary thought. How long before Google Geneology is
launched? Let's give 'em a year, eh? *smile*
For whatever demand exists, there will be a solution. At least they don't
built pyramids.
Best wishes,
Roy
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