“Google said Monday that it had begun operating local-language sites in eight European countries for its Google Print program, its closely watched effort to make all of the world’s books searchable online, expanding into territories where it has drawn fierce criticism.
The Google Print sites – for France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and Spain – enable users to search books provided by publishers in each country as well as English-language books in the Google library for which the company has secured local rights.”
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