Google on Google and Mashable on Mashable. Wikipedia: "Mashable is an Internet news blog. With a reported 5+ million monthly pageviews[ and an Alexa ranking around 1200, it ranks among the largest blogs on the Internet. Mashable regularly writes about MyS
"Most of the world's knowledge is contained in physical books. Google has joined with library partners to scan and index 10 million books, enabling a vast corpus of knowledge to be searchable. With court approval, the settlement will unlock that knowledge
Nicolas Sarkozy veut contrer les projets de Google Books. Le Président de la République a affirmé que la France ne veut pas se faire "déposséder" de son patrimoine culturel au profit du service de numérisation américain. Publié sur ITespresso.fr par Anne
Governments and companies pushing for greater monitoring of Internet activity pose a major threat to freedom and democracy, according to Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. Questions: 1) Net neutrality. 2) Government data. ("t's better if dat
- New York Times July 5, 2007. Naver has so far accumulated a user-generated database of 70 million entries. Typical queries include why North Korea is building a nuclear bomb, which digital music player is best, why people have cowlicks and what a high s
Si le filtrage du moteur Google.cn était un arrangement d’ordre pratique avec un pouvoir qui entend lutter contre le free flow of information, Google a fini par reconnaître que les exigences du gouvernement chinois entraient de manière fondamentale en con
Bakgrund: Le ministère de la Culture a annoncé jeudi 15 octobre la nomination de Marc Tessier [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Tessier] en tant que président de la commission sur la numérisation des fonds patrimoniaux des bibliothèques, suite au désist
Books | guardian.co.uk. "As the deadline of 28 January for writers to opt out of the Google book settlement approaches, Le Guin has launched a petition, signed by almost 300 authors, asking that the US "be exempted from the settlement", and that "the prin
Open Content Alliance (OCA). Democracy Now! broadcast an interview between Amy Goodman and Brewster Kahle about digitization, the Google Book Search Settlement, and the future of books and libraries taped on April 17 [2009] in San Francisco. - The class a
May 24, 2008. Microsoft said Friday that it was ending a project to scan millions of books and scholarly articles and make them available on the Web, a sign that it is retrenching in some areas of Internet search in the face of competition from Google [..