Citation analysis in history of Google book search

[Eugene Garfield]

Readers of Sigmetrics may be interested in this historical note about
citation analysis.

 


>From Google's Angle 


Google also was excited about adding the new partner and, one assumes,
by the vote of confidence it represented for the ongoing and ultimate
success of the controversial project. Susan Wojcicki, vice president of
product management at Google, stated: "We're thrilled to begin working
with the University of California libraries to include their incredible
collection in Google Book Search." Progress continues at the five
initial research libraries participating in the project-the University
of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, Oxford University,
and the New York Public Library. Google also has a pilot project with
the Library of Congress' World Digital Library, a project to digitize
rare, important material held in U.S. and Western libraries but focusing
on non-Western countries and cultures.

If you're interested in the Google Book Search project, you might want
to read its history
(http://books.google.com/googlebooks/newsviews/history.html). Oddly
enough, the project appears to be older than Google itself. Two Stanford
graduate students, working on the Stanford Digital Library Technologies
Project back in 1996, built a specialized crawler for book content
called BackRub. BackRub's citation analysis technique later evolved into
the PageRank algorithms underlying Google. Of course, the names of the
two students were Sergey Brin and Larry Page. After a brief detour to
solve the problem of indexing the World Wide Web, they finally got back
to the world of books in 2002. 

The full text of the story from this is quoted is at: 

 

http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb060814-2.shtml

 

 

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