14 DAY TRIAL // Google is now aiming to become an important Dutch service as the company tends to conquer Netherlands with several partnerships in the area. The search giant made the first step today when it signed a deal with Ghent University to digitize their content and offer the books stored in their library to the entire world. Basically, this is not a new move made by Google because the Mountain View company tried to make agreements with universities from all around the world. However, Ghent is a Belgium university placed in the Dutch-speaking part of the country. According to the University, Ghent is able to offer almost 40.000 cultural heritage photographs and approximately 2.700 publications.
"And now we are really excited by the perspective of adding so many out op copyright books in Open Access through the partnership with Google's Library Project. An important asset for the cooperation is the wonderful collection kept in this Booktower. These books came into the library with the French revolution when convents and abbeys were confiscated," it is mentioned on the official page of the university. "This joint project will allow researchers, students and users from all around the world to search, browse and read the incredible collection of public domain books the university has to offer," it is added on the Google blog.
Some time ago, the Mountain View giant started a new campaign to digitize content and bring a lot of publications from the entire world to all the Google searchers. This way, Google improves its famous search technology Book Search with a lot of goodies, making it even more powerful since it doesn't have any rival. At this time, Book Search is quite the only search technology that can digitize content from the classic media and display it into a web-based interface accessible to anyone. However, Book Search is also acting as a powerful book store, offering several ways to buy or borrow a certain book.