Google to Help Put Rare Documents Online ; Donating $3m to Library of Congress
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › November 22, 2005
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SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. is giving $3 million to the U.S. Library of Congress to help set up a system for creating digital copies of rare documents from around the world - the latest step in Google's crusade to expand the amount of information that can be indexed by its Internet-leading search engine.
With the donation being announced today, Google becomes the first business to back the "World Digital Library," a concept that began to take shape about five months ago.See the full content of this document
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Google to Help Put Rare Documents Online ; Donating $3m to Library of Congress
The worldwide program is loosely modeled after the Library of Congress's American Memory project launched 11 years ago.
Backed with $48 milli...See the full content of this document
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