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Google Book Search

Mar 11th, 2008
by Dave Pattern.

I think Superpatron Ed might have let the cat out of the bag already, but Google should be making an annoucement about Google Book Search tomorrow that might be of interest to libraries… can you guess what it might be?

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4 Comments

  1. Jonathan Rochkind says:
    March 12, 2008 at 4:07 pm

    The suspense! Still hoping for news.

  2. Chris Keene says:
    March 12, 2008 at 6:05 pm

    nothing on their blog. But I note Dave filed it under "Horizon/HIP"… Book Search being intergrated in Horizon 9??
    (out of curosity, does mentioning horizon version number higher than 7 annoy Dynix customers in the UK!?)

  3. Dave Pattern says:
    March 13, 2008 at 9:01 pm

    Looks like the announcement was a day later than they originally said, but it's on their blog now:

    Preview books anywhere with the new Google Book Search API

    It wasn't too difficult to hack into HIP, although it was made tricky by the fact that our HIP stopped passing the ISBN as a discreet field in the XML version of the page after the 3.04 to 3.08 upgrade.

    The API is desgined to run client side rather than server side, and I found they blocked initial attempts to call the API using Perl LWP (faking the HTTP USER AGENT field is one way around that tho).

  4. nostuff.org » Blog Archive » Google Books API says:
    March 17, 2008 at 12:58 am

    [...] released an API for their Book Search at the end of last week. You can implement this in two ways: static (just [...]

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