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Google doesn't have to try nearly as hard as Microsoft....

at least that is what Robert X. Gringely states in his colum of May 11th. Read all about how he claims Google is Microsoft's nightmare and why he thinks Google and eBay will save America.

Scan this book!

Kevin Kelly writes in the New York Times about why scanning books suddenly makes sense "the dream is an old one: to have in one place all knowledge, past and present." We've come a long way from the great library at Alexandria to Google which is digitally scanning since december 2004 the books of five major research libraries. Kelly asks a few interesting questions in his article. When Business Models Collide should get the attention of publishers worldwide.

Ajaxian.com

More interesting stuff about Ajax at the Ajaxian website. Rumor has it that Google is working on an Ajax Google Web Editor.

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Online content cannot remain free

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- European publishers warned Tuesday that they cannot keep allowing Internet search engines such as Google Inc. to make money from their content.

* Read the full article at: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/1700AP_Europe_Internet.html

Google all your base are belong to us

The more content on the web the happier Google gets. Google offers free storage space for any one to upload files. The service is started on the 15th of november 2005 and is called Google Base. And you don't need to set up a website, just upload files, documents etc. and tag them. All this stuff needs to indexed and will eventually be searched.

Rent-a-book from Google

Ars Technica speculates about a new Google service based on the fresh Google Print Library initiative. Supposedly Google approached a publisher to discuss one week online rentel of a book with no possibility of downloading and or printing. Proposed fee of 10% of the book price was declined by the publisher as too low. This move by Google seems to be a respons on the Amazon Pages announcement. As you may recall, Amazon began offering the ability to search within popular books two years ago, although to date the entire catalog has not been scanned. Amazon currently claims that one half of all books they sell are indexed, however.

Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) announced on the 3rd of november two innovative programs to benefit readers, authors and publishers. Building on its successful Search Inside the Book technology, which allows customers to search the complete interior text of hundreds of thousands of books, the company is currently developing two new programs that will enable customers to purchase online access to any page, section, or chapter of a book, as well as the book in its entirety.

Free web statistics from Google Analytics

Urchin Software was acquired in March 2005 by Google. Enter the new Google service Analytics, a robust new web analysis system that provides site owners with traffic metrics and massive amounts of useful marketing data. With over 80 ready reports in the system you can determine where your visitors are coming from, which links on your site are getting the most hits, how long the visitors spend on various pages of your site. There's a catch, you can only use it for non-commercial purposes for free. No news on a paid-for service yet.