Pixsy Corp. is set to launch Friday StarHabit.com, a photo and video search engine that gives priority to the freshest celebrity content on the Internet.
StarHabit uses Pixsy to aggregate thumbnails of content from popular popular celebrity blogs such as TMZ.com, GoFugYourself.com, Entertainment Weekly, Hollywood.com and more sites.
“StarHabit is unique in that we are the largest aggregator of photo and video content from RSS feeds,” Norlin said. “If you look at all these popular celebrity blogs, you can tell that people are addicted to this stuff.”
“We put all of this material in one place and make it browsable and searchable,” Norlin said. “If a Mel Gibson thing would have happened while StarHabit was operational, we would have had that news within minutes.” StarHabit provides easily used tools to let consumers save their favorite celebrity photos, videos, content providers, categories and searches. The Washington Post
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Google Inc. is making out-of-copyright books available to download free of charge. Consumers will be able to use Google’s Book Search service to download a PDF files of the books available for later reading.
“Public domain books include both well-known classics and less well-known books on every conceivable subject,” said Sidney Verba, director of the Harvard University Library, a partner in the Google Books Library Project, in a statement. “Since people can search the full text of these books, they can find previously buried information about historical events or people, places of interest and matters cultural or scientific. What has been tucked away in large research library collections and available only to a few, can now be discovered and read by people everywhere.”
Copyrighted books will not be available for download but Google displays basic bibliographic information and, in many cases, small snippets of text surrounding a search term.
There is no easy way to find a list of these books but if you select the “Full view books” option below the search box on the Google Book Search home page and do a serach. Click on one of the books that comes up. Over the right hand-side, in the column just below the title, you should see a “Download” button. That will let you download the book in PDF format. Search Engine Watch, The Wall Street Journal.
