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Yahoo-Backed Group To Digitize Library, Academic Content Google's ambitions to scan every scrap of paper on earth (watch those crumpled receipts at the bottom of your man purse, pal) get a competitor as a consortium, includuing Yahoo, announces the "Open Content Alliance" to digitize books. From AP story: Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. is setting out to build a vast online library of copyrighted books that pleases publishers -- something rival Google Inc. hasn't been able to achieve. . . . By joining the project, Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo is hoping to upstage Google, which has a one-year head start on scanning and indexing books so more literature and academic research can be accessed from anywhere in the world with an Internet connection." Even Google will be able to index the group's database. Press Release. Posted by Squared at 09:08 AM | Permalink | Categories: Google, Yahoo | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Zippy New Google Maps Mashup Neat new tool lets you type in a zip code and see a boundary map. Here. Matt Cutts tells you how to program it yourself. Later he links to more zip-based data sites.(Tx Searchblog) Posted by Squared at 08:59 AM | Permalink | Categories: Google, Mapping | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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