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Google Book Search

11th March 2008

Google Book Search

posted in Horizon/HIP |

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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  1. 1 On March 12th, 2008, Jonathan Rochkind said:

    The suspense! Still hoping for news.

    posted on March 12th, 2008 at 4:07 pm

  2. 2 On March 12th, 2008, Chris Keene said:

    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!?)

    posted on March 12th, 2008 at 6:05 pm

  3. 3 On March 13th, 2008, Dave Pattern said:

    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).

    posted on March 13th, 2008 at 9:01 pm

  4. 4 On March 17th, 2008, nostuff.org » Blog Archive » Google Books API said:

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

    posted on March 17th, 2008 at 12:58 am

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