Google scanning library books, not a new idea.

For many years, lots of people have wished that whole libraries were scanned into an electronic format. Well, the future is now as Google begins to take on this task with a test with a couple of major university libraries. It's a good step and something that has value for people who want to find true information. For years now, the internet has been taken over by commercial interests from the previous educational stature it had early on. I think that this is the solution that everyone was looking for originally. I'm surprised that Adobe didn't try to do this years ago as they had a good format in Adobe PDF. It would have been easy for them and could have given them a serious advantage in this new area of search.

There are ways I like to see the internet when looking for background information or just want an education. For that kind of search, these scanned in books would be ideal for any type of student or educational institution. If that was available, it would mean that you could avoid commercial content altogether if you wanted to. This might help delineate the difference between the commerce of the internet and a research function. It serves both, but many times they're thrown together because search engines are still not all that sophisticated.

Right now, for the educational portion of any search I might do I use GuruNet. It gives me all the information, pure information that is not commercial. Hopefully more tools will come into the market like this Google scanning library books, it's sorely needed to balance the internet.

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