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Hathi Trust Launches Search Service
November 4, 2008
The Hathi Trust has now launched an experimental search service of about half-a-million digitized books:
As an initial public beta of full text search functionality, we are offering a simple
mechanism to search across all of the fully viewable works (both those in
the public domain and those for which we have permissions) and a sprinkling
of search-only works (i.e., in-copyright works where we may not show the
text of the work). The size of the content indexed is approximately 500,000
volumes, and the majority of the works are fully viewable. Although this is
a fully functioning and reliable search mechanism for these works, we
provide it as a public beta in order to learn more about these large search
indexes in a public setting.
It's fun to mess around with, since you never know what you might find. Congratulations to the Hathi Trust for this foray into establishing a full-text search service, and I look forward to more texts being added to this experimental, but still very full-featured and useful service.
Posted by Roy Tennant on November 4, 2008 | Comments (1)
