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Article: A perspective on Google book search: viewpoint: Google offers its side.
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- Information Today
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- January 1, 2006
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Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. We started by making it possible to search information that's available on the Internet. But the real challenge is that most of the world's information isn't online--and therefore isn't easily discoverable, as we believe it could be and should be.
We're working to change that with Google Book Search. Just as we help our users find Web pages, we're partnering with authors, publishers, and libraries to make it possible for anyone anywhere, to discover the vast ocean of knowledge that resides within books of all languages--a global resource that will forever be ...