Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

New search features improve the experience of searching for terms within Google's library of books and magazines, as well as linking to pages from external blogs. Tom Krazit writes about the ...

The Book Search settlement, announced in October, followed a three-year battle over Google’s right to display copyrighted books on its Web site. The Authors Guild and the Association of American ...

Debbie Elliott and New York Times Magazine ethicist Randy Cohen examine the dilemma that search engine Google poses with its Google Book Search tool. The powerful software can scan whole sections of ...

The landing page for the Google Book Search deal lists the changes coming to the Google Books service. Readers can search Google’s Books database for over 7 million books. Today, books searchable on ...

Yesterday was the filing deadline set by Denny Chin, the federal judge overseeing the Google Book Search case, so over the last few weeks the court has received letters, briefs, and other documents ...

As I sat down to write my response to Geoffrey Nunberg’s “Google’s Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars” (The Chronicle Review, online edition, August 31), I hit an impasse: There is simply too much ...

This month Google launched a new search tool: Talk to Books. W hereas a typical Google search relies on keywords to produce results that attempt to respond in an appropriate in correct way to a query, ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) tonight has informed the federal judge overseeing a proposed class-action settlement of the Google Book Search case that it officially opposes the settlement, as ...

A database of published books that have been scanned by Google and made available in Google search results or from the Google Book site. Introduced in 2004 as the Google Print Library Project, it ...

Google’s plan to digitize some of the world’s largest library collections and make them searchable online has proven controversial. The universities of Michigan, Stanford, Harvard, and Oxford have all ...