Google Opens Knol to the Public

http://knol.google.com/
Welcome to Knol
A knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic.

Google Patent search

http://www.google.com/patents/
Search over 7 million patents.

Google launches virtual world called Lively

http://www.lively.com/html/landing.html
Create an avatar and chat with your friends in rooms you design

Google Scholar and Academic Libraries: An Update

http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00013820/
Purpose: This paper updates the authors’ original 2005 study of Google Scholar’s integration into ARL libraries web sites. Had more ARL libraries added Google Scholar?
Design/methodology/approach: The library homepages of the 113 ARL academic institutions were examined for paths or links to Google Scholar. The coding scheme focused on noting if Google Scholar appeared on the [...]

OCLC and Google sign agreement

http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=283
OCLC and Google have signed an agreement to exchange data that will facilitate the discovery of library collections through Google search services. Under terms of the agreement, OCLC member libraries participating in the Google Book Search programme may share their WorldCat-derived MARC records with Google to better facilitate discovery of library collections through Google.
‘This agreement [...]

Google Sites

http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/sites.html
Google Sites is the easiest way to make information accessible to people who need quick, up-to-date access. People can work together on a Site to add file attachments, information from other Google applications (like Google Docs, Google Calendar, YouTube and Picasa), and new free-form content. Creating a site together is as easy as editing a [...]

Google Book Search Bibliography

http://www.digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm
Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
Version 2: 5/27/2008

Introduction
This bibliography presents selected English-language articles and other works that are useful in understanding Google Book Search. It primarily focuses on the evolution of Google Book Search and the legal, library, and social issues associated with it. Where possible, links are provided to works that are freely available on the [...]

Google Scholar as a new source for citation analysis

http://www.int-res.com/articles/esep2008/8/e008pp5.pdf
ABSTRACT: Traditionally, the most commonly used source of bibliometric data is Thomson ISI Web
of Knowledge, in particular the Web of Science and the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), which
provide the yearly Journal Impact Factors (JIF). This paper presents an alternative source of data
(Google Scholar, GS) as well as 3 alternatives to the JIF to assess journal [...]

OCLC and Google to exchange data, link digitized books to WorldCat

http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/200811.htm
DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 19 May 2008—OCLC and Google Inc. have signed an agreement to exchange data that will facilitate the discovery of library collections through Google search services.
Under terms of the agreement, OCLC member libraries participating in the Google Book Search™ program, which makes the full text of more than one million books searchable, may share [...]

PageRank for Product Image Search

http://www.www2008.org/papers/fp506.html
In this paper, we cast the image-ranking problem into the task of identifying “authority” nodes on an inferred visual similarity graph and propose an algorithm to analyze the visual link structure that can be created among a group of images. Through an iterative procedure based on the PageRank computation, a numerical weight is assigned to [...]