[WEB4LIB] Google and catalogs

[Daniel Messer]

I have to say that this is one of the neater things I've ever seen on the web and leave it to Google
to come up with it. If y'all haven't checked it out yet breeze over to:

http://catalogs.google.com

I think they have something like 400 catalogs online, all pages scanned and displayed as they are in
the original materials. And the interface they have for page flipping is very nice too.

Dan

Steve Cramer wrote:

> 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..."
>
> __________________________________________
> Steve Cramer
> Business Librarian
> University of North Carolina at Greensboro
> smcramer at uncg.edu
> 336-256-0346

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