Google and catalogs
    Steve Cramer 
    smcramer at uncg.edu
       
    Tue Dec 18 13:51:31 EST 2001
    
    
  
Interesting news about Google's business plans today in MSNBC.
Google targets catalog business
http://msnbc.com/news/673852.asp
"Catalog shopping may never be the same. Google, one of the Web<RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK>s most 
popular search engines, is quietly building a searchable database of 
scanned product images from thousands of mail-order catalogs, hoping to 
leverage it into a new revenue stream by cutting deals with retailers..."
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Steve Cramer
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University of North Carolina at Greensboro
smcramer at uncg.edu
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