Google's most recent service, Google Print, has been temporarily suspended until November. The aim of Google Print is to make the world's books accessible to internet users with full-text search. Books would be scanned from public libraries and other sources. Many of the intended books are either hard to locate, or lacked a digital copy for searching. In a post made on the Google Blog, Adam Smith, Google Print product manager, said:
"We think most publishers and authors will choose to participate in the publisher program in order introduce their work to countless readers around the world. But we know that not everyone agrees, and we want to do our best to respect their views too. So now, any and all copyright holders – both Google Print partners and non-partners – can tell us which books they’d prefer that we not scan if we find them in a library. To allow plenty of time to review these new options, we won’t scan any in-copyright books from now until this November."
Google's plans to scan the world's libraries have come under criticism from groups worried about an increasingly Anglo-Saxon / Western world outlook online. The French government announced earlier this year plans to launch a similar service offering different content. In other news, Google, in response to a recent announcement from Yahoo, revised the number of items listed in its image search. Google claim they now index 2,187,212,422 images, an increase of .8 billion.
View: Google Blog
"We think most publishers and authors will choose to participate in the publisher program in order introduce their work to countless readers around the world. But we know that not everyone agrees, and we want to do our best to respect their views too. So now, any and all copyright holders – both Google Print partners and non-partners – can tell us which books they’d prefer that we not scan if we find them in a library. To allow plenty of time to review these new options, we won’t scan any in-copyright books from now until this November."
Google's plans to scan the world's libraries have come under criticism from groups worried about an increasingly Anglo-Saxon / Western world outlook online. The French government announced earlier this year plans to launch a similar service offering different content. In other news, Google, in response to a recent announcement from Yahoo, revised the number of items listed in its image search. Google claim they now index 2,187,212,422 images, an increase of .8 billion.
View: Google Blog
NVIDIA Reference Card - X-bit Labs | nV News | Guru3D | TrustedReviews | AnandTech *ALL NEW*
This is the stock reference card provided to review sites by NVIDIA. It is clocked at 400/1000 and isn't available for retail purchase.
eVGA - Guru3D | GDHardware.com *NEW*
eVGA is offering two models of their 7800GT. The first is essentially a reference card with an eVGA branded cooler slapped on. It has the default 400/1000 clocks and comes only with the standard-faire bundle items such as DVI-D-sub adapters, VIVO connectors, and a power splitter. The second model comes pre-overclocked to 445/1076 and ships with the full version of EA's Battlefield 2. eVGA has also recently introduced a lifetime warranty on its cards.
BFG Tech - [H]ard|OCP | Tweak Town *NEW*
Famous for offering most of their cards pre-overclocked and with lifetime warranties, BFG has made no exception with their 7800GT. The card comes clocked at 425/1050. The bundle is the standard stuff, with no games included. It does come with a copy of Ulead VideoSuite 9SE.
Leadtek - VR-Zone
Leadtek's cards have been known to be great overclockers. Their card comes overclocked at 450/1050 and bundles with two great games - Prince of Persia: Warrior Within and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. Chaos Theory is a great benchmark for your card's power when antialiasing and HDR are enabled.
XFX - Hot Hardware | The Tech Report | Neoseeker | Hexus.net
XFX's card also comes pre-overclocked at 450/1050. The bundle offers full versions of X˛: The Threat, Far Cry, and MotoGP 2. While no gamepad or t-shirt is included as with the XFX 7800GTX, most people would agree that games are more worthwhile. After all, that's what you bought your card for, right?
PNY
PNY's card doesn't come with any impressive features. It isn't pre-overclocked and doesn't come with any bundled games. PNY does however make solid video cards. For a limited time, if you buy one through Newegg you'll get a free 2GB mp3 player ($179.99 value) with purchase.
Point of View - Guru3D
This is a lesser known player in the video card market, but they have been around a while. Basically providing reference cards, the 7800GT is no exception. The core is clocked at the standard 400MHz, but the RAM however comes in at 1053MHz. It also comes with a very nice games bundle, which includes Far Cry, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, and Thief 3: Deadly Shadows.
Asus *NEW*
The 7800GT from Asus appears to be a stock card with an Asus sticker slapped on the reference cooler. The clocks are stock (400/1000), and the bundle includes Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising, Project Snowblind, and Xpand Rally as well as some Asus branded software. An Asian hardware site has photos of what could be an upcoming revision of Asus's 7800GT.
Look for more cards to be added as information becomes available.
Last edited by 64975 on 12 Aug 2005 - 19:20
At least explain yourself if you're going to post a rather illogical opinion like this.
You're a publisher disliking minor excerpts of your books being made searchable?
I thought it was a pretty good idea being copyright compatible with not the full works being published... A great tool for everyone to help promote their work without going further than that.
Iv never really used Google Print but if it became like a local online library that would be really cool as a library is a free service this should be too,
I think this is a way to cover their backs, they let the publishers tell them what books not to scan before they get sued
And Google's image search, I don't honestly think that's a real number, I very, very often get images that doesnt exist anymore. For the "#1 search engine" in the world, their results are starting to become sloppy and the services are constantly in beta (e.g. Groups has been in beta for years, and still sucks worse than the old version). Google needs to get their act together.
Another thing to question Google's index, why did their index suddenly double when MSN Search announced it had indexed a few more pages than Google? A day or two after, Google suddenly started indexing another 4 billion pages, coincidence? I think not.
http://print.google.com/print?id=cQyU9cVDb...dyswT6hBuT4uGn0
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