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Rich Results is a book search algorithm takes into account more than 100 "signals," individual data categories that Google statistically integrates to rank your results. When you search for a book, Google Books doesn't just look at word frequency or how closely your query matches the title of a book. They now take into account web search frequency, recent book sales, the number of libraries that hold the title, and how often an older book has been reprinted.

How Google Search, the Kindle and e-books, and print on demand this could play out in the future, specifically for the major players of book publishing: readers, authors, printers, publishers, retailers, and e-book device vendors.

Ultimately I view Google as a way to augment your brain with the knowledge of the world

Consists of three reports, "Can a New Research Library Be All-Digital," "On the Cost of Keeping a Book" "Ghostlier Demarcations" (latter discusses large text databases such as Google Books and their impact on scholars)

In the June 4 issue, The Chronicle published an article on what Google Books could mean for researchers. We asked some leading scholars to comment on how "big data" will change the humanities. Here are their responses:

PBS documentary aired 12/30/09

Google Books (despite some OCR-related quality issues) is becoming a treasure trove for computational research (such as culturomics) and other digital humanities projects.

Google's book service raises monopoly and privacy concerns. It also holds great promise for increasing access to knowledge.

A review of four bibliographic utility studies on library catalogs points out that the library catalog is no longer the starting point for students and researchers and that it has been eclipsed by easier-to-use and more convenient tools such as Google Books, Google Scholar, and LibraryThing. The author suggests that catalog developers learn from these tools and draw on their metadata; include "social" enhancements such as tagging, comments, and reviews; develop systems that are user-focused rather than librarian-focused; forsake the local catalog for the union catalog to reduce duplication of effort

Questions discussed includ privacy, monopoly, size