Book Reviews
-- Comment() Meet Google's new Scholarly search tool: "Google has launched a beta search tool aimed at meeting the needs of scholars. Currently free and devoid of ads, is Google poised to take on the established academic search leaders?" [Ars Technica]
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-- Comment() Low approach photos: "I found these last night and had to share--so amazing. The still photos are better I think because it looks impossible. All are planes approaching to land at the airport on St. Maarten." [JG] Incredible beach with airplanes almost touching the sunbathers.
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Google taking over the desktop? -- Comment() Google Muscles Into Microsoft's Turf: "As Google rapidly rolls out new products, the company best known for its wildly popular search engine is muscling into the software giant's turf, including its stronghold: the computer desktop. [...] Google's aggressive ambitions could pose a formidable threat to Microsoft because it gets to the heart of what drives Microsoft's dominance: its control of the user experience through the Windows operating system."
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