Tuesday

Google Book Search

•Started in 1996
•Work like normal web search but search book listed at Google Booksearch Program only
•Find content of the book faster
•If book has been found, click and user will be able to ‘buy’ or ‘borrow’ the book from the link provided (online book shops or library website)
•Now available in 35 languages, 10,000 publishers and more than 100 countries participating
http://www.books.google.com/
•There are more than 1.5 million title in the system now
•There are about 5000 Malaysian title ‘live’ in the system
•There are about 20,000 Indonesian titles
•We have Malay books listed in the book search
•Malaysia is in 12th place as the active user

•Comparison in Asia:
China – 500,000 search per day
Malaysia – 440,000 search per day
Indonesia – 100,000 search per day

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