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| Tuesday, October 31, 2006 |
Need a scary story before you tuck your trick-or-treaters in
bed that will make them convulse with fright until they lay unconscious in a nightmarish
hell until morning? Google can help.
Have you, or a loved one, been terrified by Google's Book Search service that
sent chills throughout Parisian literary haunts, and tore through the thin skin
of American publishers? Or have you succumbed to the dark side, benefiting from
the boosted blood money book sales the service has provided? Discuss in WebProWorld.
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Halloween this year, Google opens up its chest to show off the public domain contents
of Book Search. The bloodiest and most ghoulish classics are available through
Google's Scary
Stories page.
Dracula's in there - yeah, he sucks - and so is Frankenstein, Mr. Hyde, as well as The Withered Arm.
And of course, they didn't leave out the master, Edgar Allen Poe, and links to A Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, and The Raven.
They can be transferred like ghosts in the machine by downloading the PDF version. There is also a link to where bound editions can be purchased.
Here's a real life horror story:
Poupon Google: An American Search Engine In Paris
Google's Book Search, the spawn of Google Print for Libraries project, a grand plan to index millions of books and make them searchable with the help of America and England's top libraries, has struck fear among publishers worldwide.
Though it has been shown to increase book sales for works still under copyright (Google only makes snippets of copyrighted work available and then links to where books can be purchased), publishers and authors have balked at whether or not it is acceptable to make digital copies for indexing in the first place.
France was so upset about it last year that the country's head librarian called together the entire European Union to discuss a strategy to combat it - except for England who is allegedly part of the anglophile conspiracy to uproot native cultures through squelching foreign languages and presenting history through a decidedly Anglican slant.
Their horror became three-fold as the Anglican community mocked their accusations of omni-Googlization and the cultural imperialism that traveled across the Atlantic with it. This was followed by Quaero, the French's answer to Google, which nearly died on the operating table before becoming a whining apparition haunting the Internet.
Google Print For Libraries, they say, is still out there, terrorizing publishers
and French librarians to this day.
About the Author:
Jason Lee Miller is a staff writer for
WebProNews covering technology and business. |
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Search
Engines Go Spooky
 By
David Utter
Staff Writer | WebProNews
Google, Yahoo, AOL, and Ask have spiffed up their sites for All Hallow's Eve,
but Microsoft is sadly lacking in the treat department.
Microsoft handed out tricks instead, bestowing the horror of litigation on 55 alleged software counterfeiters around the globe. It's probably best not to think of Steve Ballmer dressed like Captain Jack Sparrow.
You have my permission to bleach your brain of that image now.
AOL gets partial credit for tweaking its logo and adding a pumpkin-orange theme to its main page. Their list of the top 13 haunted houses in the country gives a glimpse of the blood-dripping fun taking place across the country.
Yahoo updated its logo to
reflect the ghoulishness of the day. Clicking it takes you to Halloween
'06 and plenty of links to fun Halloween information on various Yahoo properties.
Don't forget to check out Rob Zombie's "Dragula" video.
About
the Author:
David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business. |
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Take Part In The WebProWorld Halloween Photoshop Contest
Every year around this time, ghosts, goblins, and ghouls come out of the woodwork
looking for the only thing that will purge their hunger - Halloween candy. In
celebration of today's festivities, we invite you guys to WebProWorld to take
part in our annual Photoshop
contest. There are a number of images for you to work with so don't delay.
Check out an example below.
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WebProWorld's
Halloween Photoshop Contest
It is time, time for WebProWorld's annual Halloween PhotoShop (Or other graphics
program) Contest. We have a few new faces this year... so be sure to make them
feel welcome. Here is a link to last years contest.
Alright here's the deal… below you will find links to pictures of the WebProWorld
admins. Please use these in your entries. Try to include at least one admin in
each entry:
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