Explore Books and Magazines Using Google Search Options

October 1, 2009 by hyacinth78
Filed under: Book Search

Good news to all books and magazines enthusiasts, Google has finally included “books” and “magazines” tab under its Search Options panel. To search the web to find a particular content related to books and magazines, you’ll just have to click “Show options… located under search box and then select Books.

This new development from Google lets you search content or books that Google scans. Then it converts to text by using an optical character recognition which is then stored in its database. Many internet users will find this latest feature very helpful for your search for any content or several reading materials in the internet is made easier for you by Google.

Google is also collaborating with a lot of Media publications and several publishers in their plan to digitized magazines and articles such as Ebony, New York Magazine, and Popular Mechanics. You will surely enjoy reading the pages of your desired books or magazines in full color and in context with the issues in which they come into view.

Since this is a new feature, most of the magazines are on a Limited Preview only. But rest assured that in the near future, you can access Full View of all magazines and books as Google is trying very hard to expand and develop this facet of their search options. Also, as Google secure permission from magazine publishers, more and more magazines and articles will appear in Google Book Search results for all internet enthusiasts to enjoy. An arrangement of combining magazine results into the main google.com search results is also under way, so you have to watch out for this plan to materialize.

Just a note before I forget. For now, discovering books and magazines using Google search options is only available in the United States. For those outside of US, you’ll just have to wait for this innovation to become available in your country to begin your search.

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